> If you're building something that handles photo/video images you must expect it and build in privacy from the ground up.
I agree with this as part of a bigger solution. There should also be privacy regulations with serious consequences for negligence or abuse. If private customer data were a liability due to the risk of huge fines from misbehaving employees, companies would collect a heck of a lot less of it.
Right now data collection is almost all upside for the company; there are many ways to use or sell it to make more money. But users bear the costs, many of whom don't realize just how much they are being spied on.
To go further, it should also go down on someone's permanent record so that they aren't allowed to work in the same field for someone new. This shouldn't be like being a priest where you just get rotated to a new area but get to continue doing what you got in trouble for in the first place.
I agree with this as part of a bigger solution. There should also be privacy regulations with serious consequences for negligence or abuse. If private customer data were a liability due to the risk of huge fines from misbehaving employees, companies would collect a heck of a lot less of it.
Right now data collection is almost all upside for the company; there are many ways to use or sell it to make more money. But users bear the costs, many of whom don't realize just how much they are being spied on.