[xyst]

Given how lax AT&T is with this sad press release. They are fully expected to pay some fine, which they will pay after exhausting years of appeals. At that point, people will have forgotten. Impacted people get a check for $5 (if they are lucky). Business as usual.

Nobody goes to jail. Some offshore team is replaced with another bottom of the barrel contractor. Maybe a low ranking executive is given a slap on the wrists, internally. AT&T cuts some internal program to make up for loss (1 year moratorium on T&E for that team)

[1oooqooq]

if the press release is out, they already have a deal for a 3.50 identity protection plan as a "fine"

[xyst]

I vaguely recall receiving a less than dollar amount check from some PayPal class action lawsuit. Maybe it was in 2012 or 2015.

So that’s also on the table.

[underlogic]

AT&T have come a long way since room 641A. At least today they acknowledge their users had some right to privacy

[flandish]

Spot on prediction. We need to start pushing for jail for these people running (and owning) these businesses with such carelessness.

- yes. I mean all owners. Shareholders too. All it would take is once for shareholders to get slapped with prison relative to shares owned for this sh*t to stop.

[Terretta]

> Shareholders too.

A proportionate share of jail-time days, rounded down. So retail investors would be fine.

[flandish]

No. Jail even folks buying ten shares on robinhood.

Let’s make it not ok to invest in corporations committing crime.