Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation
Mr. David Cicilline:
I thank our panellists for this very useful discussion. Mr. Rotenberg has argued that the $5 billion settlement concluded by the Federal Trade Commission, FTC, with Facebook was insufficient, saying it was too little, too late. I have raised similar concerns, saying that this fine was essentially a speeding ticket that will not help consumers and that the remedy in this case will not serve as an effective form of deterrence. Can Mr. Rotenberg describe for us what an effective remedy in that case might have looked like?
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