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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (1 child)

General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties for selling driving data of hundreds of thousands of California motorists to data brokers, allegedly without their consent.

[...] made approximately $20 million from the unlawful sale of their data between 2020 and 2024. The information included names, location information, driving behavior, and contact information

Yep

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Cheesus, I'll never understand this. How can the fine be lower than the unlawful gain? Shouldn't paying back the unlawful gain always be the base from which one goes up?

    No need to explain, these are rhetorical questions. I know how fucked up the US legal system is esp. wrt corporations.

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