Jo Onfilm

Should corporate boards face personal accountability for repeated privacy violations?

Directors oversee systems; they do not configure every database. Threatening prison or personal ruin for negligence, as one proposal summarized by [Cleary](https://www.clearyenforcementwatch.com/2019/06/legislators-propose-differing-approaches-to-federalizing-corporate-responsibility-for-data-breaches/) contemplated, could drive qualified people away and reward defensive paperwork over security. Use clawbacks for proven misconduct and reserve personal penalties for fraud, concealment, or deliberate lawbreaking.