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1. ProtonMail (protonmail@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 23:44:41 UTC ProtonMail

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   Big tech fines in 2023 totalled $3bn for breaking laws on both sides of the Atlantic.

   Here's a breakdown of long it took them to pay off their respective fines:

   🔎 Google: $941 million – 1 day 4 hours
   📦 Amazon: $111.7 million – 2 hours
   👓 Meta: $1.72 billion – 5 days 13 hours
   🍏 Apple: $186.4 million – 4 hours
   🪟 Microsoft: $84 million – 3.5 hours

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   • ProtonMail (protonmail@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 23:44:43 UTC ProtonMail

     If you think big fines work on #BigTech, think again.

     Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft generated enough revenue in the past 7 days to pay off their fines for 2023.

     Taking advantage of your privacy is so lucrative, that these fines are nothing more than the cost of doing business.

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