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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Privacy in big tech is not driven with the mindset of "it's better for the user", but with "it's better to cover our ass legally".

[–] Patches 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Except it isn't. Companies openly flagrantly get caught violating your privacy again, and again.

And the legal cost to do so is always, ALWAYS LESS than the profit made violating your privacy.

Privacy protection in America is dead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Glad I live in Europe where a company gets sued for hundreds of millions for violating privacy

[–] Patches 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wow a euro brag. Never seen that one before \s

But just to be clear Social Media is a trillion dollar industry in Europe. Hundreds of million dollar fines are still not enough.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Oh did I say millions? Decided to make a Google search. Last time we did this META had to pay 1.2 billion €