« Reply #656 on: November 18, 2016, 11:51:44 AM »
Spot on, from TC:
While it’s good to hear that the punishment no longer exceeds the crime for those involved, the larger takeaway from this situation is a stark reminder of how much of our digital lives are out of our control. With one false move, people lost access to a significant part of their digital identity and trove of personal data.
As the AP report found by speaking with those affect, these people’s lives were immediately impacted in non-trivial ways – they missed emails with confirmation numbers for their flights, couldn’t access work files or medical records, didn’t spot messages about upcoming credit card payments, and so on.
Google may be within its right to take an action – perhaps, ban violators from buying more phones? ask them to export their data and move to another provider? – but it shouldn’t have the right to completely shut off someone’s digital life instantly, with no warning.
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