Nigeria fined Meta Platforms $220 million, its competition watchdog said on Friday, after investigations showed data-sharing on social platforms violated local consumer, data protection and privacy laws.
Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But is it enforceable?
randoot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s no way they make enough from Nigeria to warrant paying that fine. They’ll just threaten to close shop there and the government will just drop the fine.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Drop the fine after …donating(?)… To an official in charge of dropping the fine.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 11 months ago
And even if it is, will a company with 39 billion in net income last year even care?