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Letter sent to Meta: https://www.datatilsynet.no/contentassets/36ad4a92100943439df9a8a3a7015c19/urgent-and-provisional-measures--meta_redacted.pdf https://www.d

Letter sent to Meta: https://www.datatilsynet.no/contentassets/36ad4a92100943439df9a8a3a7015c19/urgent-and-provisional-measures--meta_redacted.pdf https://www.datatilsynet.no/contentassets/36ad4a92100943439d... 1 mill NOK (~$100k) daily fine if breached.

avgcorrection 3y ago
Aside but: The kerning (?) used in that letter is absolutely awful.
- patates 3y ago
  That was my first thought too but perhaps that's just part of the punishment: Having to follow that document to the unevenly spaced letter.
- kalleboo 3y ago
  Generated by Microsoft Word, of course
- latexr 3y ago
  Kerning¹ concerns pairs of characters; tracking² adjusts spacing over a range of them. What you’re seeing here is a consequence of text justification³ warping the text. Justification is rife with problems such as rivers⁴ and hard to get right. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_spacing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_spacing ³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justifie... ⁴ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago
  It looks fine for me, but I'm on macOS, which comes with all the Windows fonts, including Times New Roman. What you're seeing might be due to your system not having a copy of that font? (PDFs can embed fonts, but don't necessarily.)
yard2010 3y ago
It's like imposing 5 shmeckels-a-day fine on an individual, it's a waste of time and money
- williamdclt 3y ago
  ~$30M a month, ~$3.6B a year, I'm not sure what's Meta's annual profit but it doesn't seem like a drop in the bucket (assuming it can actually get enforced)
  - vincnetas 3y ago
    ~$3M month, ~$36M a year. Thats affordable :)
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - fakedang 3y ago
    ^ He did the math /s $100k a day is $3m a month which is $36m a year. Even if it were $30m a month, it would still be $360m a year.
    - williamdclt 3y ago
      facepalm, thanks for the correction
- Nurw 3y ago
  Norway has 5 million inhabitants, it sets the precedent for other countries to do something similar with fines scaled for their population. At that point it might start to hurt.
- jsnell 3y ago
  Meta makes about 25% of their revenue in Europe. Norway should be about 1-2% of the European revenue, so if we take the upper end of that. Norway should be on the order of 0.5% of their total revenue. Meta's net income is about $6 billion / quarter. If we assume that revenue share translates to profit share, that means their profits from Norway are about $30 million / quarter, or about $300k / day. So the fine is about a third of their profits from Norway. That seems like a pretty significant proportion. If such sums weren't significant, they'd not bother operating in Norway in the first place.

avgcorrection 3y ago

Aside but: The kerning (?) used in that letter is absolutely awful.

patates 3y ago
That was my first thought too but perhaps that's just part of the punishment: Having to follow that document to the unevenly spaced letter.
kalleboo 3y ago
Generated by Microsoft Word, of course
latexr 3y ago
Kerning¹ concerns pairs of characters; tracking² adjusts spacing over a range of them. What you’re seeing here is a consequence of text justification³ warping the text. Justification is rife with problems such as rivers⁴ and hard to get right. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_spacing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_spacing ³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Justifie... ⁴ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago
It looks fine for me, but I'm on macOS, which comes with all the Windows fonts, including Times New Roman. What you're seeing might be due to your system not having a copy of that font? (PDFs can embed fonts, but don't necessarily.)

yard2010 3y ago

It's like imposing 5 shmeckels-a-day fine on an individual, it's a waste of time and money

williamdclt 3y ago
~$30M a month, ~$3.6B a year, I'm not sure what's Meta's annual profit but it doesn't seem like a drop in the bucket (assuming it can actually get enforced)
- vincnetas 3y ago
  ~$3M month, ~$36M a year. Thats affordable :)
- deleted 3y ago
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- fakedang 3y ago
  ^ He did the math /s $100k a day is $3m a month which is $36m a year. Even if it were $30m a month, it would still be $360m a year.
  - williamdclt 3y ago
    facepalm, thanks for the correction
Nurw 3y ago
Norway has 5 million inhabitants, it sets the precedent for other countries to do something similar with fines scaled for their population. At that point it might start to hurt.
jsnell 3y ago
Meta makes about 25% of their revenue in Europe. Norway should be about 1-2% of the European revenue, so if we take the upper end of that. Norway should be on the order of 0.5% of their total revenue. Meta's net income is about $6 billion / quarter. If we assume that revenue share translates to profit share, that means their profits from Norway are about $30 million / quarter, or about $300k / day. So the fine is about a third of their profits from Norway. That seems like a pretty significant proportion. If such sums weren't significant, they'd not bother operating in Norway in the first place.