Originally Posted by
buddman
My opinion is at odds with most/all of you, but for me the size of this fine is FAR out of scale to any damage known to have been caused by the data breach... Anti capitalist legislation at its finest.
You call it anti-capitalist; I call it consumer protection.
As Rory Cellan-Jones says on the BBC website, "The message [to major corporations] is clear - if you don't treat your customers' data with the utmost care expect severe punishment when things go wrong."