Reasonable definitions of breach
Mar. 18th, 2018 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutWhen I type “define breach of contract” (not in quotes) into google, here is the first part of the first thing I get: “An act of breaking the terms set out in a contract”. So that would be _a_ _reasonable_ definition of the term “breach”. Let’s remember that for JUST a moment.
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-data-breach-reactions-executives-response-twitter-2018-3
According to this reporting, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Stamos (there’s a joke here, but I’m not going to try to find it), tweeted that what happened was a “violation” of the “agreement”, but not a “breach” under any reasonable definition of the term.
Never mind the politics. Never mind what should or should not be done. FB apparently has an executive level person who thinks that the _generally understood meaning of breach under contract law_ is not a “reasonable” definition of the term “breach”, in a situation where an agreement between FB and 3rd parties has been violated.
Look, I’m autistic. I’ve got kids on the spectrum. I can get _very_ locked into what a word means in a particular context. But this is ... ridiculous. Corporate executives who might have to deal with contract violations should probably understand what “breach” means. I mean, I’ve met physics people who will argue about the technical definition of the word “work”. But absolutely no one takes them seriously at all. Same deal here. Don’t Be That Guy.
Also, I have about had it with people whose primary expertise is technological / technical / computer / wtfery who cannot be bothered to pay any attention to the law. The law is actually relevant. It is. Seriously.
NYT coverage : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/us/cambridge-analytica-facebook-privacy-data.html
This contains some of the tweets. The tweet about reasonable and breach does not specify ‘data breach’, it only says ‘breach”. Other tweets specify ‘data breach’. But even ‘data breach’ could be construed here to mean, a breach of contractual agreements with respect to the allowable and prohibited uses of data covered by the agreement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-data-breach-reactions-executives-response-twitter-2018-3
According to this reporting, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Stamos (there’s a joke here, but I’m not going to try to find it), tweeted that what happened was a “violation” of the “agreement”, but not a “breach” under any reasonable definition of the term.
Never mind the politics. Never mind what should or should not be done. FB apparently has an executive level person who thinks that the _generally understood meaning of breach under contract law_ is not a “reasonable” definition of the term “breach”, in a situation where an agreement between FB and 3rd parties has been violated.
Look, I’m autistic. I’ve got kids on the spectrum. I can get _very_ locked into what a word means in a particular context. But this is ... ridiculous. Corporate executives who might have to deal with contract violations should probably understand what “breach” means. I mean, I’ve met physics people who will argue about the technical definition of the word “work”. But absolutely no one takes them seriously at all. Same deal here. Don’t Be That Guy.
Also, I have about had it with people whose primary expertise is technological / technical / computer / wtfery who cannot be bothered to pay any attention to the law. The law is actually relevant. It is. Seriously.
NYT coverage : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/us/cambridge-analytica-facebook-privacy-data.html
This contains some of the tweets. The tweet about reasonable and breach does not specify ‘data breach’, it only says ‘breach”. Other tweets specify ‘data breach’. But even ‘data breach’ could be construed here to mean, a breach of contractual agreements with respect to the allowable and prohibited uses of data covered by the agreement.