They just lost a huge part of their buisness revenue permanently. The FTC prohibited them from selling their most valuable type of data, and from collecting it in the future.
This action will also cause all of these other data brokers to tighten up their likely shitty practices or be next, so this is a big privacy win in several directions.
That’s an excellent fine. The FTC chair, Lina Khan, is an absolute beast. She is fighting mergers like a motherfucker and shutting shits like this down.
Ok. If I take 100 dollars off you each month until the police stop me. Stopping me is punishment enough because I lose revenue.
Talking money off you and taking your data and selling it on is different, but both are wrong and both should come with a punishment. Not just an order to stop.
In the EU they wouldn’t have tried this in the first place, because they’d get fined.
They just lost a huge part of their buisness revenue permanently. The FTC prohibited them from selling their most valuable type of data, and from collecting it in the future.
This action will also cause all of these other data brokers to tighten up their likely shitty practices or be next, so this is a big privacy win in several directions.
That’s an excellent fine. The FTC chair, Lina Khan, is an absolute beast. She is fighting mergers like a motherfucker and shutting shits like this down.
Ok. If I take 100 dollars off you each month until the police stop me. Stopping me is punishment enough because I lose revenue.
Talking money off you and taking your data and selling it on is different, but both are wrong and both should come with a punishment. Not just an order to stop.
In the EU they wouldn’t have tried this in the first place, because they’d get fined.
What stops them from doing it again?
What stops other busunesses from carrying on until their caught? No one is in jail.