> I dunno, we seem to issue fines a lot nowadays and the behavior doesn't change.
We issue fines, yes. We do not issue fines to an amount that would incentivize behavior change. Most fines from agencies like this, when I see them, tend to be in the <$10 range, when scaled to how "impactful" the fine would be against an average person's income. My father would call a fine that's less than $10 a "toll".
In this particular case, the fined entity is too small for me to know exactly, as I can't find their financials. But the amount doesn't smell large.
In some instances, I've seen agencies level $0 fines against corporations. Literally, all the agency demanded was "stop doing the bad thing, m'kay?"
>We issue fines, yes. We do not issue fines to an amount that would incentivize behavior change.
Who is we? The US?
I see many euros on HN tutting about lax regulation, but no one in the EU seem willing to actually enfore the GDPR and levy a corporate death penalty if their brothers across the pond won't do the needful.
(I'm eligible for an Italian passport Jus sanguinis, though I had intended not to look into it until late in life -- maybe I should abandon my American one, and immediately lobby for the above to my new elected representatives, since everyone I've met from the world of spooks seems to obstruct me out of fear I'll expose their illegal behavior rather than do their damn job well enough I wouldn't notice how they spend their free time.)
We issue fines, yes. We do not issue fines to an amount that would incentivize behavior change. Most fines from agencies like this, when I see them, tend to be in the <$10 range, when scaled to how "impactful" the fine would be against an average person's income. My father would call a fine that's less than $10 a "toll".
In this particular case, the fined entity is too small for me to know exactly, as I can't find their financials. But the amount doesn't smell large.
In some instances, I've seen agencies level $0 fines against corporations. Literally, all the agency demanded was "stop doing the bad thing, m'kay?"