Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway -- unless it obtains users' consent to the processing.
My point is that the costs shouldn’t be the same if you do something evil to one user, vs a million. If it were, it’s just a loss leader until I can make more than I lose.
Right, but it’s not really about getting money for their country. Or at least it shouldn’t be.
It’s about punishing corporations for not following their laws/regulations, and making the consequences onerous enough to dissuade them and others from doing it again.
$100k is nothing to these people. It’s like your or I paying $0.25 a day. They see it as the cost of doing business.
It should be a number “per user” “per day” not just a “per day”. Make it really hurt based on how much it’s being done.
Or just make a cost per day that is punitive.
If I did something outright evil and criminal, and my only punishment was a $0.25 fine, I would feel motivated to keep doing it again.
My point is that the costs shouldn’t be the same if you do something evil to one user, vs a million. If it were, it’s just a loss leader until I can make more than I lose.
The cost should be something that guarantees you can never profit from it.
Let’s just double the amount of ads in Norway to cover the loss.
I mean, any money flowing from them to nation is good at the end of the day.
Right, but it’s not really about getting money for their country. Or at least it shouldn’t be.
It’s about punishing corporations for not following their laws/regulations, and making the consequences onerous enough to dissuade them and others from doing it again.