Reply to post: Re: Simple to compensate the vast majority of victims

Let's be Frank: Bloke drags Google to the US Supreme Court over $8.5m privacy payout

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Re: Simple to compensate the vast majority of victims

Or just establish how much each single user must be compensated for the damage. Then multiply it for the number of damaged users

In which case Google or whoever would actually fight the case, rather than just hand over an insignificant (to them) amount of money to make it go away.

This kind of class action lawsuit is really just a form of legalised extortion, with the amount claimed calculated not on the basis of the damage suffered but on that old principle of effective taxation: plucking the maximum number of feathers with the minimum amount of hissing.

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