Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text

Teal@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Should be like GDPR fines: 4% of your annual global revenue.

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t find anything that states how much they have actually paid. It’s not quite the same if they spend 20 years fighting the amount in court.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  102 million is a major fine.

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  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    102 million is a major fine for you. For meta that’s less than 1% of their last quarter (which was around 13 billion net income).

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    • pixelscript@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you make $50k/yr after taxes, the equivalent fine would be on the order of about $120.

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      • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not an entirely accurate representation, because after taxes you still use that money for housing and food and transportation etc. In business terms that 50k would still contain operating costs. So that $120 might still seem a lot.

        That 50k a year should be extra money, the money left in your pocket after taxes, housing, groceries, other necessities and debts are paid off. That would give an accurate representation of how insignificant a $120 ticket would be.

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And thats is all this is, it isnt for war profiteering it is for poor practices, sure it could be more but people really lose sight of things when it comes to fining these companies.

        The fines for targetting children with damaging content or promoting harmful posts should be way more than this and than they are but this isnt an action they directly profitted from it was a lazy and harmful missing of the required mark.

        Im not this invested in defending meta but 102 million is a lot for one country to fine one company. Ireland fined the company nearly 1% of their global net for one issue.

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      • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wow you have very forgiving traffic laws where you’re from. $190 for rolling through a stop sign here.

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      • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s the points on the licence that really matters for speeding though in my country. When they accumulate enough points they get banned from driving for a period like a year or maybe more.

        I hope this applies to meta. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t though.

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    • ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To put it into perspective, the fine was 0.8% of that net income.

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  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not for a company with 120 Billion profits.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is absolutely not, but I understand it’s easy to lose sense of scale when you go into billions territory.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is less than a rounding error.

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