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Starting today Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy. (tutanota.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Syo@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL. To put that in perspective, let imagine it's some $100,000 annual pay worker. This means Facebook just added 365 employees to their ranks, if they ignored this order completely.

They fire and hire people in the thousands, the penalty is a joke of scale.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 22 points 1 year ago

Except this is for a single country. Is it worth that kind of expense for 5 million people? Does Facebook make $36.5 million in profit just in Norway? If not, then this is a net loss for them.