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South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users (apnews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder if shutting them down for a period of time would be a better punishment. They might feel it more if they can't collect data and advertise for a week, month, whatever. And that might also have a side effect of people not going back.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think enough people are addicted to it that they would demand the government undo it. I think adding two zeros to their fine would work better

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

People would definitely cry "censorship".
The old percentage of profit, or whatever, might work better