<story><title>LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lifelabs-data-breach-1.5667618</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>Is there a reason why we can&amp;#x27;t have strict liability laws for data breaches? Seems like every time companies get off because proving negligence or damages is too hard. If you get hacked, you should pay $x per affected individual. No more &amp;quot;we did our best, but it was a Sophisticated Attack™ carried out by a nation state&amp;#x2F;APT, so plz don&amp;#x27;t fine us&amp;quot;. Imagine if companies could use this logic if they lost physical goods. eg. if a bank got robbed, they shouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to say &amp;quot;well they were a really sophisticated crew of bank robbers, so there goes your deposit!&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>LifeLabs goes to court to block privacy watchdogs from probing 2019 data breach</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lifelabs-data-breach-1.5667618</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brutus1213</author><text>Canadian here. This lifelabs breach is a national travesty. Compared to the ruckus the opposition made for the We charity situation, why are they not after these guys? This really disgusts me about our political system today .. if you can score points against your opposition, go full-on guns blazing. If it actually is of consequence to citizens, meh.</text></comment>