Comment by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK
5 months ago
How about monetary compensation? People lost real money, damages can be calculated.
After all, if I installed spying software on GM's computers, and sold the extracted data to, say, Toyota, I'd face hefty fines. And spend time in prison.
> After all, if I installed spying software on GM's computers, and sold the extracted data to, say, Toyota, I'd face hefty fines. And spend time in prison.
You're going about this all wrong. Setup a company, create a landing page and do some B2B contracts for selling that data, and you too can be a "Data Broker" fully legally. But yes, approaching this as an individual is most likely illegal, you're supposed to do it as a corporation.
IANAL but you’ll want a cofounder. Piercing the veil is a lot easier with a single founder company.
Probably a class action lawsuit in the future, if one does not already exist.
Jail time? Probably not, we let health insurance companies get away with taking away critical needs from patients and delaying care in the name of delivering shareholder value. The best they get is a slap on the wrist from the government, let alone jail time.
Health insurance abuses got a quite different slap recently.
And they are calling it 'terrorism'. What a joke our country is.
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But not if you sold GM software that had a clause deep in the license agreement saying you'd sell the data to Toyota.
What if in this case it was about keeping the accident rate low by incentivizing safe driving? Don't know if I agree with them doing it, but it's probably not an argument that any side would win, and we don't even truly know if it would be a negative or a positive for society when looking at it from every angle.