Comment on EU regulator slaps TikTok with $368m fine for violating privacy laws
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year agoBut did they make that much in this specific breach because if they didn’t then it is a decent punishment. I get what you’re saying but being worth billions and being fined millions doesn’t automatically make it pointless, that breach may have profited them 200 million is which case they just lost 168 million by doing it and won’t do it again because it wasn’t worth it.
Ekybio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Purely economically speaking that is true, but that’s not the only relevant thing here.
Remember it’s the Chinese Government essentially harvesting massive ammounts of data. A price well worth it, if you use it later down the line in propaganda efforts, marketing strategies and “spotting potential dissidents”.
A more apt punishment would be forcing then to delete the data, prevent future harvesting