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Google admits to violating federal law and plans to keep doing it

89 points·by throwaway82028·há 4 anos·30 comments

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throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Both. Regardless of the route, they would change their practices and the law does allow for equitable relief to get them to stop doing the action.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
That is one of my biggest concerns, although in this case that would hopefully be a PR disaster.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
The CFPB did end up forwarding the complaint and I did notify the DoJ as well. I agree that they'll probably try to argue anything they can to deny responsibility.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
It likely is not. Just the filing fees in federal court can be close to $500 and I believe the ECOA requires the action be brought in federal court.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
I do get why you might feel that way, but first by me going alone it doesn't prevent someone else from filing a class action.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Because I already sent a letter to multiple agencies about it and nothing was done, so the only recourse I have to get them to change their ways is to file it myself or find a class action attorney willing to do it.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Having a freeze is actually supposed to prevent any pull at all, which is why Experian has an option to unfreeze. The fraud alert is a separate action though that states you have been a victim of identity theft.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Although the situation is ideal for class action, federal law caps the penalty at $500,000 for class action and so depending on the number of class members the amount I'd get as a class representative is likely less than what I'd get in an individual case.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Yes, I will be pursuing legal action on the matter because there is a $10,000 punitive penalty.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Where in Arizona specifically? Have they even decided? Did the government decide to pay for the factory and enroll their for-profit prisoners to work for $0.10/per hour, and divert the remaining water supply to the factory? Arizona seems like a terrible choice for a chip factory, unless they've selected an area that gets natural water... and there aren't many.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Because if the data is encrypted as suggested here, then the hashes wouldn't match and the content won't be de-duplicated.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
If hashes weren't illegal, cloud storage providers could probably save millions by deduplicating pirated content.
throwaway82028
·há 4 anos·discuss
Not only does it require login, but it is not like they are giving you full bandwidth. Good luck to anyone trying to do a lot of high-bandwidth downloads over an Xfinity guest network.