Judge confirms Google's miserly $22.5m Safari privacy FTC payout A US judge has accepted Google's offer of just $22.5m to settle with the FTC over Safari cookies, despite pressure from a consumer rights group to stiffen the penalty. District Judge Susan Illston decided that the agreement was "substantively fair, adequate and reasonable", rejecting Consumer Watchdog's objections that the …
So if you harm the privacy of 10 people, you pay for each violation, but if you harm many more (which does nothing to reduce the impact it has on each separate individual) you don't just get a volume discount - you get a fine that amounts to a compliment instead of a punishment to ensure you pay attention next time.
No wonder the nation is in such a state. That's like begging on your knees to ignore any semblance of compliance with the law. Sjeez..
No, its that we have a weird legal system that allows one to plead guilty but not admit one's guilt.
Had Google admitted their guilt, then they could have been fined 3 Billion USD or something like that amount.
(Most likely less but much more than 21 Million USD)
Google and Microsoft know how to beat the legal system, and until the courts rule Google to be a monopoly... they will get away with murder, so to speak.
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