It doesn't work like that, though.

Companies don't get to do whatever they want just because they didn't put any safegaurds in place to prevent illegally using the data they collected.

The correct answer is to look at the data and verify it's legal to use.

I might be sympathetic of a tiny startup who has increased costs, but it's a cost of doing business just like anything else. And Facebook has more than enough resources to put safegaurds in place, and they definitely should have known better by now, so they should get punished for not complying.

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SilasX 2 days ago | parent [-]

> The correct answer is to look at the data and verify it's legal to use.

So repeal Section 230 and require every site to manually evaluate all content uploaded for legality before doing anything with it? If it’s not reasonable to ask sites to do that, it’s not reasonable to ask FB to do the same for data you send them.

Your position seems to vary based on how big/sympathetic the company in question is, which is not very even-handed and implicitly recognizes the burden of this kind of ask.

	▲	const_cast 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not before doing anything with it, just before processing it for specific business use cases like targeting. Running a forumn is fine, and I don't care if someone inputs a fake SSN on a forumn post. I DO care if someone inputs a fake SSN on a financial form I provided, and it is actually my responsibility to prevent that. That's what KYC is and more.