there is no motivation to keep data secret. What we need, is some serious liability for heads of agencies or companies that lose or sell it. Then they will be motivated to keep data secret like it should be. Something reasonable, like 10 years in jail for each piece of data lost/sold without consent. That'll motivate them
I think that's a bit draconian, sounds like a way to ensure only the Facebook's and Google's of the world hold a monopoly as I could see that to discourage entrepreneurs and new startups.
Maybe a little better... I guess if you are a young startup and broke then nothing to lose? If you don't own a house or much in the bank...
But I feel these breaches also make the compaines look bad, so bad PR I think is a big hurt. However at the same time you have no choice to be included or not with some things. Like with LexisNexis or Equifax, since as far as I know I can't tell them to delete all my info and as far as I know I never consented to them having my data.
