Re: Units?
What's happened to El Reg?
Nothing.
A slip up, no big deal.
Although slowly becoming frequent, it can be easily fixed.
But today is Friday and that's not the problem.
The problem is that governing/regulatory bodies either have no teeth, are so tame that they have no interest in governing or regulating or as this case clearly shows, money talks much louder than the law.
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"... would like to reaffirm our desire to guarantee the dissuasive nature of our penalties ..."
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Indeed.
If penalties are not of a dissuasive nature, they are clearly not penalties.
They are just a bad joke and a slap in the face of the law.
How many cases have we seen here at ElReg where hundreds of thousands countless millions of persons have seen their data (ahem) stolen due to (ahem) the severe carelesness of those who had to guard it/make sure it was safe and unavailable to miscreants?
How many cases have we seen here at ElReg where hundreds of thousands countless millions have been bombarded with spam/cold calls, or otherwise abused by marketing delinquents and the fines applied were a ridiculously tiny fraction of the money the AHs made with their marketing ploys?
This is not only a European issue, it is rampant all over the world and the common aspect of the problem is that big money/corporations is behind it all.
So yes, the Autorité is quite right.
And the appeals court is in Apple's pocket, which is very, very deep.
Any doubt about that?
ie: not asking about how deep Apple's pockets are.
O.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
