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by taneq 3422 days ago
If Alice hires Bob, and Bob sells Alice's information to Charlie, and Charlie makes $2bn out of it, then it seems fair to hold Charlie responsible as well. Otherwise all you're doing is creating a market for sacrificial goats to take the fall while the company making the money gets away clean.
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If Charlie doesn't know Bob's information is tainted, all you're doing is punishing the innocent for a crime they didn't commit.
It's called due diligence. The fact that Facebook didn't do it was a factor in the trial.