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This is America, fines are how everything is addressed. Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez, Facebook, you name it. We don't haul CEOs off to jail in this country.

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Where's the new laws protecting our data? We do more than just fine.

Two of the largest American global corporations (Google/FB) would have a much smaller bottom line if there were laws prohibiting the interchange of user data for marketing purposes.

There aren't any laws about that for the same reason that there aren't any laws addressing corporate tax loopholes.

Fines that are too small to change behavior are mostly worthless.

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