China. Lots to take issue with, but when they want policy followed, they back it with force (Jack Ma, delisting Didi, forcing Evergrandes’ founder to liquidate his wealth to make at risk stakeholders on shore whole).

Enron. I guess the SEC takes things more seriously than, well, I'm not totally sure what government agency is responsible for protecting their constituency's private data...

Who cares? They can just topple them again, every time one company grows too powerful. Just like mowing my lawn: I don’t complain that if I mow the grass, it’ll come back. I just mow it every time it grows too high.

It’s all part of the churn, and the government has abdicated their role of monopoly lawnmower.

Users indicated they didn't want to be tracked. Wiretapping, and other stalking laws can be used for this, it isn't Facebook's first brush with the law so the fines should reflect that.

At the very least this is a direct violation of the GDPR in Europe, which could be fined with up to 4% of the annual global turnover.