> As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions.

And that should be treated as a massive liability, where one breach wipes out your company with lawsuits. And the wronged parties can go after the assets of executives and maybe even investors, due to willful criminal negligence.

If there's any justice, the "greed is good" techbro industry will finally be told that the sociopathic combination of systemic surveillance/stalking and gross indifference about even basic security is over.