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Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy

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Re: Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy

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Post by vidarh »

sixhobbits wrote: post #4

> The small country of Norway is taking on the tech giant. Will David be able to bring down Goliath? Kind of interesting that here the *country* is david while the *business* is goliath..

Given Norways sovereign wealth fund alone has twice the market cap of Facebook, it's also not very accurate.

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Post by vidarh »

petecooper wrote: post #5

>$100.000 each day For clarity & comment skimmers: TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, so it's not "a hundred dollars a day".

Norway being one of those.

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Post by viraptor »

veave wrote: post #9
petecooper wrote: post #5

>$100.000 each day For clarity & comment skimmers: TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, so it's not "a hundred dollars a day".

No one uses 3 digits to represent cents, so nobody is going to interpret this as a hundred dollars a day.

Bahraini Dinar (and some other Dinars I believe) use 3 digits for their currency. I wouldn't assume no dollar does it. Sure, it's very unlikely. But if you've never dealt with some other currency, it may not by that obvious.

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Post by viraptor »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #8

So what stops Facebook from just banning Norwegian users?

Money from advertising. Sure, they can cut off everyone who tried to sue them... but won't last long that way. Also they could be still sued for the past non-compliance instead.

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Post by silvester23 »

quadral wrote: post #16

I find it interesting that the _smaller_ countries imposes these restrictions and fines as their way of generating revenue. $100,000 a day I can imagine is a fair bit for Norway.

Norway may be small in terms of population but it's still one of the richest countries in the world. I doubt they are doing this for the money.

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Post by throw5555788o »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #8

So what stops Facebook from just banning Norwegian users?

Or simply not complying. After all what can Norway do about it? Lol

It reminds them of the Canada govt trying to make FB pay for news. Ehh... NOPE.

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Post by jcpst »

veave wrote: post #9
petecooper wrote: post #5

>$100.000 each day For clarity & comment skimmers: TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, so it's not "a hundred dollars a day".

No one uses 3 digits to represent cents, so nobody is going to interpret this as a hundred dollars a day.

It took me a minute. My brain saw the period and then truncated the third zero to make sense of it. This is pretty common in humans. But because I thought that one hundred dollars was odd, I read the article, which I then realized it was one hundred thousand.

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Post by clan »

quadral wrote: post #16

I find it interesting that the _smaller_ countries imposes these restrictions and fines as their way of generating revenue. $100,000 a day I can imagine is a fair bit for Norway.

Your imagination is lacking:

"Norway's 'oil fund' earns 131 billion euros in first half of 2023"

https://www.thelocal.no/20230816/norways-oil-fund-earns-131-...

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