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  that's like 20 cents to then
context: They make that back in less than 5 minutes.  What’s the point of having these legal recourses if they all amount to a light tap on the wrist? When will the regulators start applying penalties as % of gross earnings in addition to dishing out actual prison time? E.g. a 2% penalty on GP plus 5 year felony per infraction will see such problems magically disappear overnight. >
  
  Fines are just in place to make things legal for rich people, always been that way >
  
  And the money doesn't even go to the people that Google used the data from. >
  
  These fines are absolutely useless. $29m to google is nothing. >
  
  You mean "licensing fee" to use these monitoring practices. >
  
  If the amount of the fine is lower than the amount they made from breaking a law, it's not a fine, it's a fee. Loosely quoting someone — If the punishment for stealing $1,000,000 from a bank was a fine of $100,000 and I got to keep the rest, I would keep robbing banks. >
  
  And I can't even get Google to show my proper location with all settings optimized. Shame. >
  
  Right? I'm sitting on my couch and Maps (after having done all steps to achieve maximum accuracy) is telling me the distance to "home". >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 61%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Google settled two lawsuits paying $9.5m and $20m over claims the company tracked its user's location without their consent.
  "My office reached a settlement with Google requiring the company to pay $9.5 million for deceiving and manipulating consumers-including by using"dark patterns" to trick users and gain access to their location data," DC Attorney General Karl Racine said in a tweet.
  Last November, Google agreed to a record $391.5 million multistate settlement, which also requires the company to be more transparent about location tracking and limits Google's use and storage of certain types of location information.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Google^#1 location^#2 company^#3 setting^#4 lawsuits^#5 >
  
  And where the fuck is my cut from the rape and sale of my privacy you fuckin Google shit scumbags. Fuck you despicable google - whishing your demise. >
  
  You can start here:
  /r/degoogle/ >
  
  Why not start fining like 1 billion at least? This is pointless.