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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by bitlevel on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @12:20PM (#23760748)
That may be, but a threat of jail hanging over a director or CEO may make them take the correct course of action - effectively becoming the deterrent.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by drstewart on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:02PM (#23761261)
It won't. Again, this is well studied.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-and-punishment...

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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:19PM (#23761505)
Your source doesn't actually apply well here. It talks about things like substance abuse and addiction being reasons that criminals don't act rationally to punishment as a deterrent. For white collar crime, there's a very different set of circumstances in play. Crime is often just a business decision based on risk and reward. Raise the risk and the reward becomes less worth going for.
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