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I'd complain. I wouldn't demand from them millions of dollars or suggest they be locked up in a cage like the EU would.
by macinjosh 7y ago
I'd complain. I wouldn't demand from them millions of dollars or suggest they be locked up in a cage like the EU would.
- icebraining 7y agoComplaining makes sense, but when you've been doing it for twenty years (the Data Protection Directive, which prohibited many of the same behaviours but didn't impose specific penalties, is from 1995) and you see that businesses keep recklessly doing the same behaviours, you might learn what economists have been saying: they only respond to incentives, and so the EU had to set some of it wished to see its complaints taken seriously. And so the EU joined the US into fining companies a few million for privacy violations.