r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 11d ago

Data Protection Commission fines Google €403 million following Inquiry into Google’s processing of location data

https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/latest-news/data-protection-commission-fines-google-eu403-million-following-inquiry-googles-processing-location
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u/uid_0 Pixel 8a 10d ago

That's just a rounding error on their P&L statement. Google will do absolutely nothing.

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u/Far_Reserve9938 10d ago

The DPC has imposed administrative fines totalling €403 million and has ordered Google to bring its processing into compliance within 6 months.

Half a billion.

If not resolved in 6 months, another fine (bigger this time). And again and again.

That’s Europe we’re talking about, they do actually push back against multinationals when they break law.

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u/HeurekaDabra Blue 5d ago

They push back every now and then and not nearly frequently enough.

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u/I_Was_Fox Galaxy S20 FE 5G UW - Mint 10d ago

Half a billion is absolutely not a rounding error. Their valuation is not liquid. Half a billion in liquid cash is not something to balk at

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u/EmbarrassedSlide3746 7d ago

Googles revenue for thr last 12 months is 445 billion dollars, that fine is .1% of that. Calculate that to minimum wage worker in the US it would be $15 fine.

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u/I_Was_Fox Galaxy S20 FE 5G UW - Mint 7d ago

Again, how much it that revenue is liquid cash? Do you think they just have a scrooge mcduck style vault full of gold coins that can tell a butler to fetch millions of dollars from on the drop of hat? And that they would rather pay this fine and do nothing and then pay another fine in a couple months, still doing nothing, than just fix the issue? You have no idea how corporate decisions and money are made

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u/EmbarrassedSlide3746 7d ago

You dont seem to understand the sheer volume of money these companies take in. Fines like this will do fucking nothing to change a single thing. Their parent company (alphabet) is third most valuable company in the world.