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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by hyhconito on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:58PM (#42524947)
Opt in you mean, like the cookie banners?

Oh no that'll never happen because VW are a European company and the money is in fining US tech companies!

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by rad_gruchalski on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:59PM (#42524965)
European companies get fined the same as any other companies.
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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by hyhconito on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:05PM (#42525039)
Well within the constraints they set out which exclude a hell of a lot of European companies.

(I am in Europe for reference, this is not an external perspective)

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by 7bit on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:15PM (#42525132)
What constraints? And which companies are excluded by them?
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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by mtmail on Friday December 27, 2024 @07:17PM (#42527366)
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights shows breakdown by country, type, industry sector. "Highest fines: individual" top 10 list is all international companies (Meta, Amazon, TikTok, LinkedIn, Uber) and those make the news. Smaller European companies hardly make the news.
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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by adolph on Friday December 27, 2024 @02:22PM (#42525198)
VW paid "$14.7 billion to settle civil charges in the United States" and was ordered "to pay a $2.8 billion criminal fine for 'rigging diesel-powered vehicles to cheat on government emissions tests'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by betaby on Friday December 27, 2024 @03:37PM (#42525810)
"Seems low" and "cost of doing business" - paraphrasing any thread about US company. Could also says "VW should be sued out of existence".

Also I genuinely think those fines were low.

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Re:VW Suffers Major Breach Exposing Location of 800k Electri... by RajT88 on Friday December 27, 2024 @03:54PM (#42525937)
The fact that it did not seem to stunt their growth speaks for itself:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VWAGY/volkswagen-a...

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