Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
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#2While I am in favour of efforts like the GDPR to protect users data, I wonder if all this anti-bigtech sentiment is actually justified and where it will eventually lead to
Re: Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
#3While I am in favour of efforts like the GDPR to protect users data, I wonder if all this anti-bigtech sentiment is actually justified and where it will eventually lead to
I expect some kind of:
- common carrier status for “platforms”
- PII laws, broadly
Re: Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
#4That’s 1.45% of their annual revenue or 5.2% of their annual net profit.
Re: Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
#5While I am in favour of efforts like the GDPR to protect users data, I wonder if all this anti-bigtech sentiment is actually justified and where it will eventually lead to
Hopefully it can actually entice Google into changing it's behavior. The US fines are so small they are a joke, a light tax on doing business.
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#6That’s 1.45% of their annual revenue or 5.2% of their annual net profit.
Yes, but it's also a threat of further fines in future if they don't stop their shenanigans.
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#7While I am in favour of efforts like the GDPR to protect users data, I wonder if all this anti-bigtech sentiment is actually justified and where it will eventually lead to
It is a long time coming and still a long way to go and the surveillance big tech giants should pay a high price for abusing and violating the privacy of hundreds of millions of users.
It's a shame that this fine is too generous to Google and it won't scare them. It should be much larger than that and should be in the multi-billions of dollars.
Re: Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
#8While I am in favour of efforts like the GDPR to protect users data, I wonder if all this anti-bigtech sentiment is actually justified and where it will eventually lead to
If you’re in favor of efforts like the GDPR, why do you call this anti-bigtech sentiment? It’s pro-privacy sentiment.
The GDPR applies to smalltech, too, and smalltech gets fined. For example, an individual got fined €600 about two months ago for pointing a video camera at a shared access road (https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-1397)
You can find many more examples of small fines at https://www.enforcementtracker.com/.
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#9What amount would these EU fines have to be to make companies like Google and Facebook decide to exit the EU?
Re: Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B
#10While I am in favour of efforts like the GDPR to protect users data, I wonder if all this anti-bigtech sentiment is actually justified and where it will eventually lead to
It is a long time coming and still a long way to go and the surveillance big tech giants should pay a high price for abusing and violating the privacy of hundreds of millions of users. It's a shame that this fine is too generous to Google and it won't scare them. It should be much larger than that and should be in the multi-billions of dollars.
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