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It's just the cost of doing business for them, implementing and complaining with EU laws might cost even more than the fine


The fine is so outrageously high (up to 4% of global revenue) exactly so this argument can't be made. It's really hard to imagine that implementing proper privacy controls would cost 4% of Microsoft's global revenue, it amounts to US$ 8B for the past year...


But more privacy mean less data they get and less revenue they generate by using that data, similar to how Meta/Google are affected by Apple privacy changes, at least that's my speculation




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