Hey, they're gonna get their $2.97 checks. That's a gallon of gas somewhere.

Fairphone is FOSS??

They submitted kernel patches for (at least some) support of the FP6 the day it released. The preinstalled OS isn't FOSS though a good few FOSS OSs/distros support their older phones (and presumably the FP6 eventually).

So the answer is... sort of? Personally I just think they're just FOSS-friendly

Jail them!

In prison gen pop. Make execs afraid to break the law for profit and/or fund reform for the prison system.

Assuming the fine isn't progressive, of course.

Over here in Finland fines for any but the minor offences are defined in percents of income, not in fixed sums of money. There have been cases of traffic fines of several hundreds of thousands for going 30 km/h over the speed limit. That makes them a punishment for very richest people as well, not only for the lower class.

(Also not change anything besides maybe make a terms upade.)

The horror!!

They should definitely be higher than what they are, even the GDPR fines are a joke, its likely added to a line "legal expenses" in their expenses.

While it looks like the EU fines are ramping up over time, it still just feels silly right now. But I guess that is intentional.

When Librem stops sucking ass and Fairphone stops being just as bad as any other Android phone in terms of integrating Google services and allowing data collection

I don't chase dropped pennies, and I don't think google does either!

Don’t we ban Chinese phones for the same actions?

laughs in GrapheneOS

So small it’s almost imaginary

If you earn like 100k a year its like being slapped with a 300 $ fine just to put it into perspective.

They'll likely appeal.

Base it not off the entire company, base it off the value of doing this. They didnt make 100 billion off unapproved android user data collection.

This argument is common and while fines should be higher, the idea that they dont matter unless they are 10% of earnings is ridiculous.

Vladislav?

The linked Reuters article provides a bit more context:

The jury agreed with the plaintiffs that Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), was liable for sending and receiving information from the devices without permission while they were idle, causing what the lawsuit had called "mandatory and unavoidable burdens shouldered by Android device users for Google's benefit."

[…]

Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said in a statement that the company would appeal, and that the verdict "misunderstands services that are critical to the security, performance, and reliability of Android devices."

Because all the "slap on the wrist" fines have worked so well to modify corporate rapism...
/s

China bad.

Which one allows me to actually control my phone and reject all the updates?