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I definitely don't work for TikTok. I don't know the details. But the fine is way too much regardless.

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you know how it's not too much? they can afford it.

What a deranged idea, you're implying it's okay to bankrupt a company just for a minor privacy violation.

i think it's deranged that you feel privacy violations are minor in any form. also, this isn't a first offense

Data privacy violations are certainly minor. Until we get that through, our companies are going to suffer. We have far, far, far greater problems in the world than privacy issues of usually meaningless data.

Data privacy is a paramount concern in free democracies. But of course you don't get that.

Oh, I think it is totally ok to bankrupt a company for not following the law.

For any violation at all? If one single McDonalds employee in Dublin breaks the health code, you think all of McDonalds should go bankrupt?

I assume you also support the death penalty for J walking?

If it is a single McD employee, fine said restaurant (which is already the case, but you onow that don't you?). If it is a general issue with a franchise chain (McD is running a franchise, so the company to go bankrupt is most likely a franchise in your example), fine them. And yes, that can lead to bankruptcy, as happened a couple of years ago with a Burger King franchise chain in Munich.

If McD is knowlingly selling carcinogenic burgers world wide and reguses to stop, sure, bankcrupt McD.

I don't know how this could possibly be down-voted, it's spot on.

A privacy violation is never minor.

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