Whistleblower payoffs in the US can be up to 30% of collected money <a href="https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower" rel="nofollow">https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower</a><p>> <i>The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected.</i><p>If the government started paying off employees who report data violations, there would be a lot of retired engineers on Hacker News!
Robert deserves a huge pat on the back for doing this. I can only imagine how many tipoffs he will need to sift through and I look forward to seeing the results. I disagree with his thought that this won't make companies learn to respect privacy. We're at a cusp and it's actions like this that are the baby steps that can take us towards a better, privacy respecting future.
This is actually a huge source of potential litigation. Lawsuits that easily end in settlement given CCPA, GDPR etc. He’s likely not just doing this for his blog.<p>It’s akin to “Injured at work?” billboards.
Website suggestion. Forward slashes indicate breadcrumbs and hierarchy, like a file system in the terminal. However, you're using them for link separators all over your website which if very confusing. Traditionally the pipe `|` symbol or potentially borders would make better separators.