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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 880014" data-attributes="member: 83059">That&#039;s very true. The flipside though, is a good point -- in practice, there&#039;s very little if any repercussions for violating your own privacy policy. I would say 50-75% of my phishing emails today are because a popular virtualization software got compromised and lost most of my personal info (including credit card and billing address). This was &quot;allowed&quot; because of very vague language around being able to share this with the third party that was compromised, but even after working with the Attorney General&#039;s office I was unable to build much more of a case other than getting offered a few years of their software for free (lol thanks I guess?)Either way, long story short, apart from the GDPR in the EU, there&#039;s almost no punishment for violating your privacy policy. It simply boils down to the amount of trust you have in your vendor, and how much they have to lose if their privacy reputation is tarnished.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 880014, member: 83059"] That's very true. The flipside though, is a good point -- in practice, there's very little if any repercussions for violating your own privacy policy. I would say 50-75% of my phishing emails today are because a popular virtualization software got compromised and lost most of my personal info (including credit card and billing address). This was "allowed" because of very vague language around being able to share this with the third party that was compromised, but even after working with the Attorney General's office I was unable to build much more of a case other than getting offered a few years of their software for free (lol thanks I guess?) Either way, long story short, apart from the GDPR in the EU, there's almost no punishment for violating your privacy policy. It simply boils down to the amount of trust you have in your vendor, and how much they have to lose if their privacy reputation is tarnished. [/QUOTE]

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