If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?

Or, even more intense, “force Facebook to delete its user data and models and start from scratch under rigorous collection restrictions.” And, of course, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from tens of millions of users was misappropriated and shared to be used for profiling for political campaigning

“Everyone is thinking backward about a fine for what they did wrong,” Jason Kint, the chief executive of the trade group Digital Content Next, told me. Under that model, Mr. Kint suggests the F.T.C. consider something similar to the German government’s February decision to restrict Facebook’s data gathering (specifically the ability for Facebook to collect and combine third-party data account advertising profiles).

Source: www.nytimes.com