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Comment Re: Cool, now do LG (Score 1) 46

Or depends on the fine. One of the fines in GDPR law is 4% of annual revenue, specifically "total global turnover". In some cases that could be higher than annual profits.

"For especially severe violations, listed in Art. 83(5) GDPR, the fine framework can be up to 20 million euros, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of their total global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher."

Comment Re: I Fail To See The Problem (Score 1) 46

One is telemetry (collecting and selling data, primarily used for marketing); the other is selling access to your hardware to run malicious code, like, for example, "attack that server", "mine for bitcoin", "try to crack the password", "send these spam emails". The first is legal, with different levels of what can be collected based on where you live (GDPR for the win!); the other illegal and used for crime.

Comment I'm in the EU (Score 2) 192

and I don't back this action.

Among a plethora is reasons (importantly this is anti-net-neutrality), a "tax" like this just ends up being passed on to end users. And they won't all be French. Google, Amazon, Netflix, et al, won't lose any profits here.

Here's hoping the inevitable price increases are limited just to France. They won't be. But we can hope.

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