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€345M is a pretty huge amount of money
by joe__f 3y ago
€345M is a pretty huge amount of money
- personomas 3y agoEspecially when you consider that it was stopped 3 years ago.
- firesteelrain 3y agoExcept it didn’t. My daughter in the US created an account and it didn’t require any family pairing or verification that the adult paired with her was her parent
- personomas 3y agoThese are EU laws that only pertain to the EU. US has different laws.
- firesteelrain 3y agoI guess TikTok has different software policies per country
- hef19898 3y agoYour honour, clearly you cannot convict my client since the crime was committed years ago. /s You don't work for TikTok by amy chance?
- personomas 3y agoI definitely don't work for TikTok. I don't know the details. But the fine is way too much regardless.
- dylan604 3y agoyou know how it's not too much? they can afford it.
- logicchains 3y agoWhat a deranged idea, you're implying it's okay to bankrupt a company just for a minor privacy violation.
- dylan604 3y agoi think it's deranged that you feel privacy violations are minor in any form. also, this isn't a first offense
- personomas 3y agoData privacy violations are certainly minor. Until we get that through, our companies are going to suffer. We have far, far, far greater problems in the world than privacy issues of usually meaningless data.
- hef19898 3y agoData privacy is a paramount concern in free democracies. But of course you don't get that.
- hef19898 3y agoOh, I think it is totally ok to bankrupt a company for not following the law.
- dahfizz 3y agoFor any violation at all? If one single McDonalds employee in Dublin breaks the health code, you think all of McDonalds should go bankrupt? I assume you also support the death penalty for J walking?
- piva00 3y agoConsider that GDPR has been in effect since 2016, with a grace period until 2018 before the EU started to hand out fines. It's been 7 years that every company operating in the EU knows about these rules, 3 years ago it was already 4 years into effect. There's no excuse, they broke the law, pay the fine.
- rsynnott 3y agoIt's pretty normal for these things to take a while; most fines (and for that matter most prosecutions) would related to historic offences, not ongoing ones.
- personomas 3y ago[flagged]
- hef19898 3y agoYou do know that corporations are not people? Right?
- personomas 3y agoObviously. That doesn't mean its good to drive our companies into the dirt, just because they're not people. People depend on them. People work for these companies. Their significance is perhaps far greater than actually ruining just the lives of one person.
- hef19898 3y agoOur companies? TikTok is Chinese... That being said, I do not consider jobs or companies benefits a valid argument when it comes to anti trust and regulations. But you sure know capitalism, and corporations, abuse the goodwill of hoverents, local and national, and communities. You just want to be ultra edgy for some reason.
- mcpackieh 3y ago> our companies Oh ho ho ho. Now your comments ITT suddenly make sense.
- yard2010 3y agoThat's monopoly money. Put the ones in charge behind the bars, that's something that might make them think twice before breaking the law again
- personomas 3y ago[flagged]
- logicchains 3y agoOr people will think twice about opening companies in your jurisdiction. There's a reason pretty much all the new fortune 500 companies created in the last few decades are not from the EU.
- skummetmaelk 3y agoWhy exactly is it that the quality of a society is measured by how many big companies they have? Does Philip Morris contribute to society or detract from it? Can we dispense with the notion that big companies inherently improve society? Letting go of this does not imply you are a communist, regardless of how many seem to think so. You can believe that society achieves better outcomes by having tighter rules of play, rather than an anything goes mentality. Yes it makes it harder to create megacorps with billions upon billions of revenue. And so what?