[AnotherUnixGeek]

Companies insist on obtaining highly confidential information from customers, and then skate after suffering massive security failures which release that highly confidential information to random hackers. Equifax spewed out the credit information of millions of people in 2017, and the only remedy they provided the victims was a year's free subscription to their own online security product - the security product of a company which obviously knows nothing about basic data security.

There need to be severe liability consequences, not worthless class-action suits which provide victims with coupons and other garbage. Both Republicans and Democrats are too busy covering the butts of these companies and not trying to protect the interests of their constituents - Equifax continues to get big government contracts, by the way.

[utax]

” the security product of a company which obviously knows nothing about basic data security.”

Who would have guessed there would be a problem when their “Chief Security Officer” was a music major? No one could have seen it coming.