Maybe I'm just highly enlightened, but...I'd think that this should already be a law, if not common freaking sense?John Funk said:
Aussie Gov't Drafting Privacy Law in Wake of PSN Breach
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To be fair, amazon HAVE been hacked. Admittedly they only lost a relatively small chunk of the DB unlike sony losing the entire thing....Baresark said:
As for insisting that breaches be reported as soon as they are detected, it was? Sony claim it was. I agree that we can't always trust what these mega corps put out there but surely they have enough sense to not try and hide losing their entire DB?
Actually, it was not reported immediately. For instance, PSN went down, then I heard a few days later they were hacked, and not from them, but from The Escapist, actually. I thought I was having a problem with my network, then I started thinking that my system had somehow gotten swept up in some new antihacking sweep I wasn't familiar with(thought I was one of the unlucky honest customers).Phishfood said:
As far as DB loss was concerned, I think they validly weren't sure if they were just hacked for the sake of it, or if they had info stolen. I mean, in those first days they kept blaming Anonymous, and they aren't thieves, meaning that they probably thought there wasn't data theft.
You are sorely mistaken my friend. The US has lots and lots of regulation, especially with this last 10 years. Over regulation is terrible, and it's hurting the American economy, and by extension, the world economy. There has been strict regulation in the loan industry, but combinations of corporate greed, corrupt officials, and general ignorance has resulted in the state of the loan industry is in today.RicoADF said:
It's not easy to get a loan in America at all anymore. There was the time of easy credit which hurt everyone, especially those like myself, who were not involved at all. Now the central bank keeps producing more credit from nothing, and it's like adding water to an already sinking ship. Also, the laws regarding fraud are the same pretty much everywhere I would imagine, jail and steep fines. You shouldn't be so quick to assume we are under regulated. It is only the presence of a free market and personal responsibility that wealth is created. Regulation consumes the wealth. The best bit is when people want more of the same bad medicine.
It's also all relative, I am sure that Australia is great for many things, but if your into video games, they are over regulated in that respect, which is what I'm sure the previous commenter was speaking of.
If Sony were telling the truth, this bill doesn't do anything in situations like there's. It's a good bill anyway. The only problem is what level of certainty do you tell everyone? 5% when there's just the potential for it to have occurred? 50%? 75%? It sounds like Sony still doesn't know exactly and there wasn't a huge delay between them shutting down the PSN and spilling the beans and I definitely feel they did it in the right order. Our actual safety first.