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		razakel on Sept 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users ... >massive fines With GDPR that can be a maximum 4% of global turnover, so "massive" is a bit of an understatement.

isostatic on Sept 8, 2020 [–]

> In the 2019 fiscal year, LinkedIn brought in $6.8 billion worth of revenue

$272m isn't small change for each infringement, and there's millions of them here

[0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/linkedin-statistics/

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