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Re:Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model by apercu on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @08:35AM (#38459137)
...and they will still try to find ways to use the data after you pay. Because the fines are rounding errors versus the profits.
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Re:Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model by sime2009 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:29AM (#38460601)
https://gdpr.eu/fines/

For Facebook is would be either 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, or 4% of said revenue.

A bit bigger than a rounding error.

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Re:Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model by Nextgrid on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @04:08PM (#38465348)
None of this has ever been applied, as proven by Facebook still being in business despite blatantly breaching the GDPR since 2018.

Even when they got close to actually getting a deterring fine, the corrupt Irish DPA bailed them out: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-data-protection-authority-gives-eu-...

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Re:Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model by apercu on Thursday November 30, 2023 @03:29PM (#38478634)
Fair, but for those 6 billion people that don't live in the EU....
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