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Hopefully? Hopefully this means we will see facebook employees faceing criminal charges!

• type0 8y ago
  If it's a corporate decision they won't be liable. "Similarly, individual employees, managers, and directors are liable for their own malfeasance or lawbreaking while acting on behalf of the corporation, but are not generally liable for the corporation's actions." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Case_law_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Case_law_... I don't think GDPR has any tooth in this.
  • afandian 8y ago
    Maybe not. But you can hope about the future. Laws are created because of malfeasance. And they can change.
  • baq 8y ago
    i'll be ok-ish with a $5B fine or whatever makes sense. it'll be cheaper then to hold the employees liable.
  • pimmen 8y ago
    It's a corporate decision made way above the heads of the developers, for sure. But, there has been very notable occasions in history when the US and Europe wasn't content with "I was just following orders" as a defense. And, during at least one of those periods in history, the US was not content with superiors claiming ignorance of any wrong doing either.