Comment on Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 month agoBase it not off the entire company, base it off the value of doing this. They didnt make 100 billion off unapproved android user data collection.
This argument is common and while fines should be higher, the idea that they dont matter unless they are 10% of earnings is ridiculous.
drhodl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because all the “slap on the wrist” fines have worked so well to modify corporate rapism… /s
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I’d agree that there is a lack of enforcement in some aspects but moreso a lack of regulation and legislation in others.
There needs to be a better commitment to addressing trends in capitalism than reacting to their overstepping.
drhodl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m 70 years old and that still hasn’t happened. Bring back the guillotine, I say. Anything less is just the price of a permit.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
These fines worked in 1957.
They don’t work today.
Its not an overreach to increase fines to a relative point commiserate with current earnings, so that they can actually harm a company and by doing so discourage future illicit behavior.
To try and claim otherwise is some corpo rat bullshit.