@ryo No problem, the government will give them more grants to make up for it. Meanwhile, who knows where that "fine" will go? Certainly not to the people harmed, especially when it wouldn't be even one dollar per American, and that's just one country. Easy money laundry.

Even then, a fine is not gonna cover it. As far as I know, you can't pay a fine to get away with murder (well, unless you are rich enough to just bribe the system), and what Google does is way, way worse than just killing a few people (hell, they have contributed to millions of deaths just in the last couple years). Fines are what the low-level employees and small share holders should pay, just enough to really fuck them up because contributing to this evil shit should have consequences. The higher ups and big share holders, on the other hand, should get a life sentence. And of course, all the data that they have collected should be destroyed.