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> What's the intended outcome?

Punitive action against the company who collected the data and lost control of it.

Punitive penalties are typically just a monetary fine above and beyond damages, but exposing just how badly they screwed up to the public at large should provide a good financial penalty in addition to doing a public good (a reminder of how much "private" data is not actually private).




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