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Again, I believe this is simply false. The provision carrying "decades in prison" applies only to companies making over a billion dollars in revenue, and only in the very limited case where a particular officer of the company knowingly mis-certifies a report to the FTC.

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The plain language of the law says that your interpretation is not correct. The criminal provisions apply to companies with over $1 billion in revenue or those those that have 1M or more users. That would expose a much larger range of independent developers to decades in prison.

No. I responded to this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18377585

A closer reading indicates seem to be correct that the criminal provisions only apply to those larger entities. However, ALL of the provisions in pages 26-33, which are significantly burdensome, still apply to All covered entities, which you can hit by just having 1 million user accounts.

I responded to your comment about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18377564

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