The privacy loophole should be closed for isolated & individual privacy violations (like this specific case showed).
But should remain open for large scale privacy violations.
Thing is, you can't close this loophole entirely, because then there would be no incentive for the service providers to work in privacy controls into the product. I believe this loophole exists to address those service providers that are extremely lax in privacy and security. I can easily imagine a scenario where a provider has implemented privacy controls but a new bug / fault has been discovered and is being exploited by a wide group of people. Without this loophole, there would also be no incentive to fix this bug / fault in a timely (speedy) manner.
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But should remain open for large scale privacy violations.
Thing is, you can't close this loophole entirely, because then there would be no incentive for the service providers to work in privacy controls into the product. I believe this loophole exists to address those service providers that are extremely lax in privacy and security. I can easily imagine a scenario where a provider has implemented privacy controls but a new bug / fault has been discovered and is being exploited by a wide group of people. Without this loophole, there would also be no incentive to fix this bug / fault in a timely (speedy) manner.
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