Amazon saved children's voices recorded by Alexa even after parents asked for it to be deleted. Now it's paying a $25 million fine.

Professorozone , 10 months ago

That's 0.0001x their 2022 profit or 0.01%. If I did my math correctly, it's about 58 minutes of profit.

Sarcastik , 10 months ago

Fuck these corporate oligarchs.

EmperorHenry , 10 months ago

That fine should have to be 25 billion, not million. Then they'd actually learn a lesson.

JingJang , 10 months ago

This isn't a "fine" to Amazon. 25 million dollars is just the cost of business.

Make this 250 or 500 million and then... Maybe.... it's a fine.

BrudderAaron , 10 months ago

Fuck it. Hit them with a couple of billion and THEN companies might stop being shitheads to basic human rights.

amanneedsamaid , 10 months ago

Totally agree. Facebook should have been absolutely crippled financially after influencing an election, but they get off scot free.

My idea is this:

Instead of a maximum fine being applied, you take a violation, lets say influencing an election, and you calculate how much of the corporations revenue came from that source. (i.e. Facebook messenger revenue would not count for election manipulation). Then, take a huge portion of that revenue (60%, 70%? [Depending on the violation]) and take that from their revenue. Who gives a shit if Facebook literally has to close down one of their services from lack of finances, thats what they get.

mycelium_underground , 10 months ago

Why not 150%. At a bare minimum every single dollar brought in by illegal action deserves to be taken.

fubbernuckin , 10 months ago

Yeah, something at or above 100% would be good. Even at 100% they're still losing the cost of doing business and getting zero revenue from it which is a poor business decision.