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[lh032]

i always find these "punishment" hilarious.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Good. Fk corpration who exploits kids data (Looking at you epic).

no. Tim is fighting the good fight.

 

[Unknown?]

These agencies need to get their head out of their ass when it comes to the fees charged to billion/trillion dollar corporations for breaking the law.

These agencies are run by people who used to work in those corporations and the corporations are run by those who worked in those agencies.

 

[Katatonic]

Funny cuz XBOX marketing works great with kids. Now we know how they've been getting that "research".

 

[EDMIX]

That's chump change for them. Should be a % of their yearly revenue instead.

This. I've always believed this.

Make it make sense.

 

[baphomet]

I think it is more like fining an average person $2 dollars.

It's actually more like fining the average person a miniscule fraction of a penny.

 

[The Pleasure]

This is how hard the fine hit microsoft

 

[solidus12]

But I thought Xbox were the good guys...

 

[Quantum253]

Same goes for Ring camera devices. Crazy to find out global contractors had unrestricted access to cloud-based video recordings and hacked/backdoor to customer accounts.
I'm sure that lawsuit will be showing up shortly too. If that device connects to the internet and cloud infrastructure, someone had access to it!

 

[CGNoire]

So a light tap on the wrist.

 

[tusharngf]

that amount of money is like phil's weekly grocery shopping amount.

 

[DeepEnigma]

These agencies are run by people who used to work in those corporations and the corporations are run by those who worked in those agencies.

"Create the problem, provide the solution."

The ultimate grift.

 

[Gamerguy84]

MS will gladly pay the fine as they've done so many times. They've paid out billions over the last twenty years and it was worth it for them as they made way more.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/microsoft-flags-over-$400-mln-charge-for-irish-privacy-violation-fine-on-linkedin

Got hit with another2.9 over business deals with Russia and Cuba. It's an easy Google.

They seem to operate how they please and don't care about these slap on the wrists.

 

[DeepEnigma]

MS will gladly pay the fine as they've done so many times. They've paid out billions over the last twenty years and it was worth it for them as they made way more.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/microsoft-flags-over-$400-mln-charge-for-irish-privacy-violation-fine-on-linkedin

Got hit with another2.9 over business deals with Russia and Cuba. It's an easy Google.

They seem to operate how they please and don't care about these slap on the wrists.

It's almost like a "by design" in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Klayzer]

It's almost like a "by design" in the grand scheme of things.

The dna of Microsoft will never change. All corporations are scummy, but Microsoft has been doing these types of buisness practices since their inception.

 

[Unknown?]

"Create the problem, provide the solution."

The ultimate grift.

It's even worse when it comes to the monetary system. They create the booms where everything is super and people invest poorly then they create the recession and buy things for cheap.

Booming hot economies followed by busts are engineered and not natural. Yes it happened before central banks but not nearly as severe or prolonged.

 

[ergem]

MS will just continue violating regulations if this is the amount if fine.