A jury found Facebook guilty of 43 million privacy violations, and Meta could owe billions

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Imagine if you and your little group of friends commited even 100 violations of some people’s privacy. Just a little peeping tom group selling people’s personal information and data… You’d all be locked up for years or at least paying out the ass to near financial ruin….

But be a corpo with thousands of “friends” committing millions of violations… and suddenly, no one can be held accountable anymore. No one is actually personally, criminally, at risk. So, as long as they make enough to tank whatever paltry fines… there’s no risk, they can just keep doing it.

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It makes sense when you realize that Corporations are first class citizens

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Same with if you owe a couple of thousand vs a couple of billion.

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I look forward to my $3 payout 15 years from now.

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These days it’s probably a tax write off.

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Billions is OpEx. It needs to be a percentage of their operating revenue (not profit). It should hurt, and be commercially crippling.

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Personal liability. The idea that these are just some amorphous entities, independent of the people executing on “the company’s” behalf… it’s the greatest farce society has gone along with to date.

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WAS the greatest farce Now we have LLM’s taking that spot, ironically to do the exact same thing

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Owe billions, not to the people they stole the data from. Just another day in corporate America.

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Billions isn’t enough anymore. It’ll still get knocked down to millions. Probably single digit.

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They could owe billions… but courts will settle for a promise to do better

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judge will give them a little slap on the wrist, and then get a cushy consultant job. Or run for office funded by some mysterious dark money superpac.

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ah, the beauty of American “democracy*”

~democracy is a trade mark of “Billionaires for America”, any similarity with the meaning of the word is purely coincidental. By reading this disclaimer you agree to hand over all data collected about you, free from limitations or compensation, in perpetuity~

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Susan Collins: I think they’ve learned their lesson.

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Is that violations per user?

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