Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit

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lmr0x61@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This is correct on an order of magnitude no single person can really wrap their brains around. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) made $121 billion in 2025. Not gross revenue—net profits (source). This “fine” is about 0.1% of what the execs and shareholders take home. That cost, in their accounting, wouldn’t register as any change in revenue.

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