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No monetary penalty has teeth. Unless the corporate veil is pierced and executives go to prison it’s just one more ordinary business expense.

Edit: the US constitution has an extradition clause[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Clause

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I'm not so sure....if the monetary penalty is so great that it cancels out the monetary gain from tracking, Google won't do it. It probably would have teeth if unauthorized tracking for any FAANG company was $20 billion dollars.

Yes, fines should be leveled against FAANG in "billybucks" - billions of dollars. As in, "Today Google got fined 5 billybucks for privacy violations."

I suspect that would result in low level employees getting scapegoated.

It's important to evaluate the realities of how laws will work in practice, not just what we want ideally to happen. A corporation is a legal and tax framework, it might be difficult to tack on such a law without fundamentally changing how corporations operate.

But this has been debate to death on HN, which is why I suspect you're being downvoted.

That’s not how business works. If the cost outweighs the benefit you adapt or fail. Most companies fail without anyone going to prison.

Why not have no cap and cause significant damage to the company. Would that be so bad? Would they all flee the country?

Edit: it just occured to me that there are normal people out there just like me only super wealthy and just bribing politicians like it's nothing. It's nuts on a societal level. Imagine being so selfish.

Regarding the edit: is there anything to indicate that they're anything like you and me? Is hoarding resources in such excessive quantities at the cost of so many others not tantamount to a personality disorder?

Is there a cap? I actually have no idea how this amount was determined. It seems too low to persuade Google to change their ways but that's just like, my opinion, man.

How much would it take for Google to change their business practices? Say there was a tax on holding and using personal information. At what point does Google say "this isn't worth it"?

So what does Indiana do when the executives are not based in Indiana? Arrest whichever employees they can get their hands on?

Apple did a bad thing, but Tim Cook is hard to get, so just pop down to the Apple Store and arrest the manager until a trade can be arranged?

Issue an arrest warrant. There is reciprocity across the nation.

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