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mahboitoday at 6:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's cleaner to hold some of a corp's money in escrow if they're handling IDs, to ensure they can't avoid fines via bankruptcy.


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rectangtoday at 6:53 PM

Fines on the scale that it might be reasonable to reserve escrow funds for are just "cost of doing business" fines.

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jm4today at 6:23 PM

Companies typically have insurance policies to cover this kind of stuff.