Comment by xp84

That cannot be the sole principle for computing all fines, though. If it were the only factor, then if a Facebook company shuttle bus is parked in a loading zone for too long, that should also be 25 billion dollars. If a manager at Facebook doesn't properly address one instance of workplace bullying? 25 billion dollars. After all, if it's a small fine, then they'll never learn!

And it should go for every company of a similar size. Apple falsely advertised all the capabilities of Siri that they hadn't even successfully built, and never did. That should have been 25 billion dollars too.

Would those be stupid? Because if those are stupid, I think it has to be because whatever data privacy violation they did was worse than allowing someone to get their feelings hurt, or messing up traffic for 15 minutes.

And my point is that it is worse than those things; but it's not worse than giving millions of Americans cancer.