Most businesses need to buy their raw materials to produce their products. With Meta, the raw material is consumer data, which users have been giving away to Me

Most businesses need to buy their raw materials to produce their products. With Meta, the raw material is consumer data, which users have been giving away to Meta freely. The fines only slightly raise the cost of this raw material from $0, so it's unlikely to deter Meta's behavior until someone faces a more severe penalty there.