Re: They’ll be breaking the law
@SW10 "Once a court finds against them, it’s neither here nor there if the fine is £1 or £1B, they’ll be demonstrably breaking the law if they continue"
Well you know it I know it everyone here knows it, hell even FaceBook know they are breaking the law. But is this not a civil case, so if the court find against Meta any money that Meta have to pay is an award to the claimant not a fine. So they will not have been found guilty of breaking the law.
But it should be bloody obvious to which ever part of our so called justice system is responsible for enforcing Data Protection Act, that FaceBook have been breaking the law. Slap a bloody huge fine on them, if they continue to break the law fine them again and again until they stop breaking the DPA. But will that happen probably not.
Then again to the likes of FaceBook a fine is just the cost of doing business. Rather than fine FaceBook for breaking the law we should be prosecuting the person responsible, who decided to break the law starting with that Zucker at the top. The punishment should not be fines but jail time. Then maybe they will think twice about breaking the law.