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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 generic92034 »

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.

There are some exceptions:

BHD Bahraini Dinar

IQD Iraqui Dinar

JOD Jordanian Dinar

KWD Kuwaiti Dinar

LYD Libyan Dinar

OMR Omani Rial

TND Tunisian Dinar

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

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Post by markdown »

throw5555788o wrote: post #18
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.

They can block FB in their country.

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

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Post by 8organicbits »

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.

Why do you believe that? There's lots of evidence[1] of other countries issuing larger fines to social media companies. The point of these is to force the behavior to stop, not to raise money. A lower fine would probably raise more money in total, as the behavior could continue long term.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/09/twitter-f...

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

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Post by retrac »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #8

So what stops Facebook from just banning Norwegian users?

Getting banned in multiple western countries (this won't be the last case like this I suspect) for refusal to comply with their democratically-valid laws is a great way to end up a corporate pariah.

Facebook is in a similar showdown right now with the EU, appealing a 1 billion EUR fine: https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/meta-fined-record-us-1-3-bil...

Their disagreement with the Canadian government is coming to a head too: https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/all-news-in-canada-will-be-r...

If they choose to only operate in markets which let them operate entirely as they see fit, they may find themselves soon with no markets left to operate in.

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

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Post by sho_hn »

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.

"Falsehoods programmers believe about time^Wmoney

(Reference to https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...)

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

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Post by closewith »

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's Sovereign Wealth Fund made a gain of 1,501 billion crowns or $143 billion USD in H1 2023. That's roughly $781 million USD per day in the first half of this year. I don't think this fine was about revenue generation.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/norway-wealth-fund-...

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

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Post by closewith »

generic92034 wrote: post #21
veave wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There are some exceptions: BHD Bahraini Dinar IQD Iraqui Dinar JOD Jordanian Dinar KWD Kuwaiti Dinar LYD Libyan Dinar OMR Omani Rial TND Tunisian Dinar

Although GP is still technically correct, as a cent is by definition 1/100th of a unit of currency.

The above all use fils instead.

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

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

throw5555788o wrote: post #18
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.

They can freeze their assets. They can basically do everything you can do against a company that doesn't obey the law.
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