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Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by goialoq on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:23PM (#15812221)
That's insane. What's a "single" infraction? It doesn't distinguish between revenue and profit? 4% of global revenue could be more than the total of all profit and salaries.
Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by kuschku on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:25PM (#15812606)
> 4% of global revenue could be more than the total of all profit and salaries.

That’s the point. Google recently came of comparatively well with a 4 billion EUR fine, but 2 more fines of the same height for Google are expected.

The only way to force a company to follow a law is to make infringing the law more expensive than any profit you could ever dream of making from it.

Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by alasdair_ on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:59PM (#15812421)
"Profit" can be kept at zero essentially forever. Revenue is much harder to hide.
Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by geocar on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:21AM (#15823397)
> What's a "single" infraction?

There are lots of things that constitute an infraction: the GDPR aims to broadly protect EU citizen rights. Some infractions can be per individual harmed.

Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:22AM (#15815474)
Then they better do their best not to infringe the privacy rights of EU citizens then, eh?
Re:Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of You... by geocar on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:17AM (#15823379)
Yes.

And European courts consider intent carefully. Mere aggregation of personal data isn’t necessarily a violation, but using it commercially almost certainly is.