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Comment by biker142541

17 hours ago

If you have a value sliding scale of "actually harmed", then almost no privacy breach harms anyone, right? Is the threshold for harm actually being scammed, physically hurt, reputation damaged?

Thankfully, those the law is not based on such thresholds.

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cm2012  17 hours ago

Relative to the actual harms caused, HN freaks about this kind of stuff too much.

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