Chris McLellan, Infosecurity:
When a company agrees to pay $391.5m to settle lawsuits filed by dozens of US attorney generals around the country, is it a big deal?
What if the company in question is Google – one of the most recognizable brands in the world, with revenue exceeding $257bn the year before?
What if Google, even with its massive resources and reach, genuinely had trouble controlling its location-tracking data (which was the reason for the legal issues)?
These are not philosophical questions; They go to the very heart of data privacy challenges faced by virtually every company on the planet and put all of them in the same danger as Google. To put it bluntly, many organizations doing business in the digital arena are likely making similar mistakes.
