Mike404

Should companies be required to pay customers when they misuse location data?

Automatic checks to everyone sound fair until most payments are tiny and the claims process consumes the fund. In the [Outlogic settlement](https://thehackernews.com/2024/01/ftc-bans-outlogic-x-mode-from-selling.html), the strongest remedies were a sales ban, deletion, consent, and a privacy program. Those measures attack the data pipeline itself. Compensation should be reserved for people who can show concrete loss or unusually sensitive exposure.