Comment on US | Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data

• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meta made $56 billion in the first 3 months of this year.
  Google made $109 Billion in the first 3 months of this year.
  Massachusetts population is about 7 million.
  Assuming all 7 million people complained and the max fine of $5K was applied that totals $35 billion. That is a best case scenario. We all know that the fine will be less then $1K per person and they would not apply all 7 million people.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The fine just as to be more than they make per violation

    Location data is valuable but not that valuable.

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