It will get reduced. It was already reduced from $219 billion to $25 billion. It will get cut down or thrown out in appeal, but even if it was $25 billion, they made way more than that in profit specifically due to misleading people on privacy all these years. And this won’t stop them from doing it in the future, it’s just a cost of doing business for these companies not anything that’s enough to change behavior.
And no living creature can abide that kind of penalty - it’s inhuman. Which is why the whole judgement must be thrown out as cruel and unusual punishment that violates the 8th amendment to the US constitution. Remember - corporations are people, too. 🥺
I didn’t mean to imply this amount would be applied nationally. I merely wanted to put it in perspective. It’s not small amount relative to the number people it represents.
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It will get reduced. It was already reduced from $219 billion to $25 billion. It will get cut down or thrown out in appeal, but even if it was $25 billion, they made way more than that in profit specifically due to misleading people on privacy all these years. And this won’t stop them from doing it in the future, it’s just a cost of doing business for these companies not anything that’s enough to change behavior.
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
This is just New Mexico
I’d be quite suprised if they made that much from New Mexico. It would be nearly $12k per person.
Overzeetop@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
And no living creature can abide that kind of penalty - it’s inhuman. Which is why the whole judgement must be thrown out as cruel and unusual punishment that violates the 8th amendment to the US constitution. Remember - corporations are people, too. 🥺
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sorry to break it to you, but only Florida can still fine them for this Cambridge Analytica issue.
The other 48 States were part of a single lawsuit that already settled for $17 Billion. Total, not per-State, for all 48 of them as a group.
So it’s up to Floridaman lawyers to actually get a real punishment. Unlikely.
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
I didn’t mean to imply this amount would be applied nationally. I merely wanted to put it in perspective. It’s not small amount relative to the number people it represents.