Actually I just got my payment from an Apple class action about Siri triggering during private conversations.
It was $40 which was kinda crazy high for such a broad class action.
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I don't know why but I'm reminded of the only moments of satisfaction I ever got in life fighting corporate America.
Wells Fargo, objectively one of the worst banking institutions in the world repossessed my vehicle despite me getting payments in, citing that they were late payments so they didn't "meet contractual obligations" but apparently they REALLY wanted my truck that was already breaking down so I woke up one day and it was gone. The loan-agent manager that I talked to literally made implied threats against me, and we had weekly shouting matches on the phone up to that point.
Whatever, it was gone. Another massive wrench in my life I had to deal with. Cue my Uber Years.
Fast forward five years or so later and suddenly I start getting checks in the mail. First a hundred here and there, with notes that I was being refunded for "overpaying" and some vague legal BS.
Then I got like, $500, then $1000, now with wording that the whole department was facing a class-action settlement and trying to repay customers that had been wrongly overbilled and then I suddenly got a check for over $10k, which was the remaining balance of the loan on the truck, and basically an "apology" of sorts that my truck was "improperly seized."
Apparently I had signed up for a class-action suit and didn't even remember it, it was just one more thing to sign in a stack of bullshit, so I never really paid attention. I mean, last class-action case I decided to get in on, I got less than $3.00.
Imagine if stalkers only had pay their victim $40 and then they can continue to stalk.
Cost of doing business. They most likely made an insurmountably greater amount from doing what they did compared to the fine.
Why not start using percentage of profits instead of fixed amounts?
It's said every time. Until we get government that gives a shit about it's constituents and aren't a bunch of geriatric paycheck collectors it's not happening.
Because since money is power, capitalism is a form of government, where 1 dollar = 1 vote. So if you make like $350 billion every year, like Google, you get that much more power to say how much companies like, say, Google, should pay in fines for breaking the law. You also get to say what the law is!
The moral of the story is: if you make around $350 billion a year, then you and google have equal say in the matter, and if you don't, well then please pipe down and enjoy your serfdom under corporate feudalism and be happy they let you live.
If I had a nickel for every time Google violated someone's privacy, I'd be richer than Elon Musk.
~~Fun~~ fact: $200 million is about 0.06% of Google's annual revenue.
If you earn $35,000 a year and pay 27% tax, a $500 speeding ticket is about 1.96% of your yearly disposable income.
For Google, a $200M fine is about 0.06% of annual revenue, which is like as if you were issued a $15 speeding ticket.
Your comparison is spot on, but are there really places where you would need to pay 27% tax making $35,000?
Fuck Brendan Eich
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I'm on android how do I get my cut?
You'll probably have to search the name of the lawsuit, go to a sketchy .com domain, give them all of your private information, wait a year, receive a check for a nickel
Truth.
If you want more nickels. MS was also fined in Italy for children's data.
Nickels, by the way, is about as much as these fees are to Google.
If that.
Google told the BBC the Commission's decision was "wrong" and it would appeal.
Have they ever actually paid a fine like this? It's great that the commission set this fine, but I'm willing to bet doughnuts to dollars that the fine is cut to hundreds of millions or less on the appeal.