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Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

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augment_me · 1789763575 · focus · HN ↗
You can just do what my university did, hire a small shell firm with 3 employees to hold all your data, and when it got hacked they just went bankrupt and we switched to a new shell firm with similar form and function.
Minimizes money usage and does not require any security investments
1. louthy · 1789763721 · focus · HN ↗
  Or … and hear me out on this one … care?
  1. m132 · 1789768258 · focus · HN ↗
    Some hard to swallow pills for tech companies in 2026: data not collected in the first place cannot leak.
    fn-mote · 1789776389 · focus · HN ↗
    In the abstract, yes.
    In the case of a university like the head of this thread, it isn’t going to be easy to avoid collecting and retaining data.
    rTX5CMRXIfFG · 1789807242 · focus · HN ↗
    Funny you say that without even knowing the school’s use case for the data. And most certainly in the abstract, companies have even less reason to collect PII than they are currently doing.

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