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From article: > Trust is really important. Companies lying about what they do with your privacy is a very serious allegation. > A society where big companies
by arka2147483647 3y ago
From article:
> Trust is really important. Companies lying about what they do with your privacy is a very serious allegation.
> A society where big companies tell blatant lies about how they are handling our data—and get away with it without consequences—is a very unhealthy society.
> A key role of government is to prevent this from happening. If OpenAI are training on data that they said they wouldn’t train on, or if Facebook are spying on us through our phone’s microphones, they should be hauled in front of regulators and/or sued into the ground.
I find it very difficult to believe that big technology could be held accountable to anything by legal means by regulators. They have too large legal teams, and too well written legal agreements, and eulas.
I find it impossible to believe that I, as a person, could challenge them in any way though legal means.
- simonw 3y agoNo matter how big the company, they still care about a billion dollar fine. That's bad for shareholder value! And billion dollar fines do happen.
- ash 3y agoFines are often gamed: lobbying, legal defence. I would argue big companies care more about losing customers. Сompetitive pressure is more effective than laws and fines. And laws are not without downsides, including becoming barriers to entry into competition.
- nojvek 3y agoBillion ain't much nowadays. The big 5 do 100B+/year in net profits. <1% doesn't matter. It's like being fined a $1000, while earning 6 figures. It feels like a pinch.
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- nojvek 3y agoGiven history of how US lawmakers have passing any bills that seriously threaten the might of BigTech, compared to how EU keeps on giving the middle finger to Big Tech, it's a weak argument. Corporations run America.