Equifax Should Pay More for Causing Identity Theft
The promised $125 payout from the Equifax settlement most likely won’t reach your wallet even if you signed up early. It turns out that most of money will go towards credit monitoring. Equifax gets to have their cake and eat it too.
Many families have been impacted by identity fraud. It’s an increasingly common occurrence because it’s seen as soft crime, despite the monetary damages being the exact same as hard crime. A person caught shoplifting or stealing in person is viciously pursued by the criminal justice system. But cyber criminals and hackers get significantly lighter sentences if caught at all. One day gutsy criminals will begin to target members of the criminal justice system – judges, lawyers, police officers, and politicians – when that day happens, you can expect swift legislation… or can you?
We’ve all heard about WikiLeaks and other political scandals involving technology. The strange thing is, why does it keep on happening? These are supposed to be the most powerful people capable of enacting change regarding cyber security and digital reform, but even as their lives and careers are ruined by data breaches, they continue to sit around and wonder why the sky is blue. If someone breaks into your home because the lock is too weak, then you get a new lock. If someone breaks into your network because the security is too basic, then you upgrade the security. But for some reason this seems like an impossible bridge to cross.
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