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If you want to solve the problem, roll up on Google and Facebook headquarters, throw Sundar and Zuckerberg in jail for a year. Companies will think twice about
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
If you want to solve the problem, roll up on Google and Facebook headquarters, throw Sundar and Zuckerberg in jail for a year.
Companies will think twice about their approach of "claim compliance until proven otherwise and then take the wrist slap".
Put CEOs in prison and you'll see lasting change. As long as they can harm billions of people and only pay a modest fine in return, they will not change.
- stale2002 5y agoYou are confused about what the "lasting change" would be. What would happen is that most of these major tech companies would simply ban all EU users. If the EU wants to be shut out of most of the tech world, fine. Because that would absolutely be the result of if all "tracking" was effectively blocked or stopped.
- phicoh 5y agoThat would be a great outcome for the EU. It means that EU companies have a home market that is shielded from their biggest competitors, while being free to compete on the world wide market. If the EU would do that intentionally there would quickly be a complaint at the WTO. In reality, as long as Google, Facebook, etc can make money in the EU, they are not going to leave.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoThat would be the biggest business opportunity in human history if major tech companies simultaneously decided to surrender access to one-sixth of the world's economy.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoI think if locking up crooks cause them to stop doing crooked things in your country, that's an absolute success, and one of the ideal outcomes of putting people in prison. ;) But also, I would strongly encourage the United States to do this. Extradition is obviously far more complicated, and as you say, could just lead them to excluding the geographic region that holds them responsible.