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Google take note. Those spammy "Update to your YouTube Account" advertising "new features" are going to get you in trouble and I will not shed a tear.
A second's income shot to hell. Seriously, $650K? That's not going to stop this kind of behavior. Maybe 2 orders of magnitude more might make them sit up and take notice.
It's not just a monetary fine. There are various other requirements put on them, for example they are on the hook for additional record-keeping and compliance monitoring for 10 years, which probably means they need to be incredibly conservative about sending emails for at least that long.
I know people who have experienced this firsthand, and it is terrifying. You can opt out of it, but nobody knows that until it's too late.
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They can wave off fines all day. Forbid them from sending marketing emails for 24 months. See if anyone keeps their job after that.
Now I think about it, this is a much better approach than a fine. Is there a downside to this?
They shouldnt be fined financially - they should be fined by adding 100 points to every single persons "credit score" And we need to kill the BBB
not only this but experian lets users sign up without confirming their email address. someone registered on MY email address and I had to spend about 7 hours on multiple phone calls over a period of 5 weeks in order to get control of an account with my email address, all to turn off their incessant spam. if you read their TOS technically you have to send a notarized letter with copy of photo ID social security number…
> if you read their TOS technically you have to send a notarized letter with copy of photo ID social security number etc. etc. but thankfully i finally reached a human with a hint of reasonability. Does that mean if someone signs you up under a false name, it's impossible to unsubscribe under the rules-as-written?
I’m still bitter that a credit reporting agency let my information get stolen, then offered free credit monitoring through Experian, and Experian just seems to be using this free monitoring for upselling. Hopefully this fine exceeds the revenue they generated from all this…
Experian once stole our credit card number, and wouldn’t stop making unauthorized charges to it. Our bank was able to just block Experian, since Experian was a large percentage (“most”) of their fraud cases, and they didn’t want to pay to re-issue cards with new numbers.
A second's income shot to hell. Seriously, $650K? That's not going to stop this kind of behavior. Maybe 2 orders of magnitude more might make them sit up and take notice.
For people cribbing about fine being too small think 100 dollar speeding fine bothers people earning 100K pa. I think it does, because fine is still lose of money no matter how small and fine also comes with further restrictions / penalties in case behavior does not change.