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Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by techpression on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:03PM (#28829812)
The only decent fine was the Amazon one and even that one was minuscule compared to their net income. It was also covered in secrecy and will likely be overturned and drastically lowered like the other big cases like British airways and Marriott. This for a law that took four years to finalize, to me it sums up to a very mediocre outcome, at best.

You are right that it’s being enforced, there’s just not very much force in the enforcing.

Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by s_dev on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:06PM (#28829844)
Whats app was fined 250 Million. It might be a small % of their revenue but it's a significant cut of their profits for that year.
Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by techpression on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:59PM (#28831037)
If you only look at it as pure loss, which would be wrong, WhatsApp (Facebook) most likely made a lot more money (and will continue to so) with the data, than they were fined.
Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by Nextgrid on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:22PM (#28830009)
Is WhatsApp still a separate company? The real reason WhatsApp exists is to provide Facebook a backdoor into people's contacts so they can infer their social graph. Whatever "revenue" WA earns is peanuts, the real value is the collected data.
Re:European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveil... by C19is20 on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:10PM (#28829889)
Where do(es) the [income from the] fine(s) go?