> Because no one believes these laws or bills or acts or whatever will be enforced.

Time will tell. Texas' sat on its biometric data act quite quietly then hammered meta with a $1.4B settlement 20 years after the bill's enactment. Once these laws are enacted, they lay quietly until someone has a big enough bone to pick with someone else. There are already many traumatic events occurring downstream from slapdash AI development.

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vulcan01 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Meta made $60B in Q4 2025. A one-time $1.4B fine, 20 years after enactment, is not "getting hammered".

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Retric an hour ago | parent [-]

They didn’t make $60B in Q4 2025 in Texas. 1.4B was 100% profit from Texas for years, that a big fine.

	▲	saalweachter 12 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You also have to ask "how much is the specific thing in the lawsuit worth to Meta?" I don't know how much automatically opting everyone in to automatic photo tagging made Meta, but I assume its "less than 100% of their revenue". Barring the point of contention being integral to the business's revenue model or management of the company being infected with oppositional defiant disorder a lawsuit is just an opportunity for some middle manager + team to get praised for making a revenue-negative change that reduces the risk of future fines. Work like that is a gold mind; several people will probably get promoted for it.
	▲	ninalanyon 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Big for Texas, not for Meta.

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Ajedi32 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's even worse, because then it's not really a law, it's a license for political persecution of anyone disfavored by whoever happens to be in power.

	▲	dylan604 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Never mind the damage that was willfully allowed to happen that the bill was supposed to protect from happening.

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OGEnthusiast 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Texas' sat on its biometric data act quite quietly then hammered meta with a $1.4B settlement 20 years after the bill's enactment.

Sounds like ignoring it worked fine for them then.

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jandrese 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That sounds like it will be in the courts for ages before Facebook wins on selective prosecution.