for perspective, €403M = ~30 hours of net income, or ~10 hours of revenue (based on 2025 numbers, current exchange rates).

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jiggawatts 2 days ago | parent [-]

There was a lot of noise a few years back about Meta getting billion-euro fines over GDPR violations.

I looked it up: they paid almost none of the fines.

If you get a ticket from a speed camera, the government will garnish your wages if you don’t pay the fine. For trillion dollar organisations payment is apparently optional.

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rob-lag 2 days ago | parent [-]

> they paid almost none of the fines.

Source?

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jiggawatts 2 days ago | parent [-]

https://dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidance/decisions/fines

So far they’ve paid something like €20 million out of €4.0 billion in GDPR fines.

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LelouBil 2 days ago | parent [-]

Most of the fines (and all of the big ones) are simply "pending appeal".

The justice system is slow, that's why the fines are slow to be collected, that's all.

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coldtea 2 days ago | parent [-]

As if they'd end up paying?

	▲	LelouBil a day ago \| parent [-]
		They paid all the fines that were confirmed after appeal, you can look at the linked table yourself.