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[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll get a slap on the wrist fine that nowhere near accounts for the amount of money they made doing this.

[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True but this also sets precedent for other cases which is an overall win. But i do wish the fines were bigger I agree with you there.

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to do a percentage of revue, rather than a fixed price for businesses. Affects bigger companies harder, but let's smaller ones still work through it.

[–] procrastinator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fine of at least 150% of money earned, though they'll just say it earned them nothing

[–] Angius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It sets the size of the fee the company will need to pay to do it.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I loved how EU set fines for GDPR breaches and I feel the same should be applied in other fields when companies are involved. There are two tiers of penalties, with a maximum of 20m euros or 4% of global revenue. That way they feel it. Really feel it. Google got smacked 50 million € for GDPR breach. H&M 35M.