“Facebook’s wrongdoing — over the course of years and systematically broadcast to the public — goes to the heart of Facebook’s core business practices,” Judge Francis Mathew wrote.
    • Jul@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      2 hours 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.newsEnglish
        6·
        2 hours ago

        This is just New Mexico
        It would be nearly $12K per person.

        That rate nationally, would be $3.8T!

        • Overzeetop@beehaw.org
          6·
          1 hour 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. 🥺