TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoMeta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica casewww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1392arrow-down11cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squaredouglasg14b@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·12 days agoI doubt New Mexico will ever see the money. What are they going to do to actually punish Facebook for not paying? Large corporations are somewhat immune from actual consequence these days.
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoThey can geoban Meta. Since pretty much who uses Meta services doesn’t know how to use VPNs, there’s a lot of pressure put on them.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoMeta is building/operating the $3.3Billion Los Lunas Data Center in New Mexico. That can change the situation on collection when the state has control where your billion dollar asset resides.
I doubt New Mexico will ever see the money.
What are they going to do to actually punish Facebook for not paying?
Large corporations are somewhat immune from actual consequence these days.
They can geoban Meta. Since pretty much who uses Meta services doesn’t know how to use VPNs, there’s a lot of pressure put on them.
Meta is building/operating the $3.3Billion Los Lunas Data Center in New Mexico.
That can change the situation on collection when the state has control where your billion dollar asset resides.