[badestrand]

> Maybe I'm naieve, but I feel building automated law breaking systems is not something corporations do

Did you already forget the VW diesel scandal? That was exactly that - a huge corporation systematically breaking the law with lots of people even in the highest ranks aware of and supporting it.

[tinco]

Well yeah, and it was ridiculously dumb, lots of people go to jail and big fines were levied. I suppose that you have a point and corporations might do it. At the same time I like to believe it's just not worth it for them.

[benologist]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/09/top-100-corpora...

    Exxon, Royal Caribbean, Rockwell International, Warner-
    Lambert, Teledyne, and United Technologies each pled 
    guilty to more than one crime during the 1990s.

https://www.alternet.org/economy/17-worst-corporate-crimes-2...

    Five banks (Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Royal 
    Bank of Scotland and UBS) had to pay a total of $2.5 
    billion to the Justice Department and $1.8 billion to 
    the Federal Reserve in connection with charges that they 
    conspired to manipulate foreign exchange markets.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/4-of-the-biggest-cri...

    In 2008 and 2009, a salmonella outbreak killed nine 
    people across the U.S. and sickened hundreds more. The 
    source of the contamination was traced back to the 
    Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), a Virginia company 
    run out of its CEO’s garage. The salmonella outbreak 
    turned out not to be a tragic accident, but rather the
    direct result of PCA’s and CEO Stewart Parnell’s 
    decision to intentionally ship contaminated products. In 
    2014, Parnell was convicted for his role in the crime.

The list just goes on and on and on and on.

[contravariant]

I can find a few small fines, but as far as I can tell nobody went to jail for that one.

[consumer451]

> A Volkswagen AG compliance executive who pleaded guilty in the U.S. for his role in the company’s $30 billion emissions cheating scandal was sentenced to 7 years in prison.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/vw-execut...

[detaro]

And Germany temporarily jailed a bunch of executives (including Audi's CEO, who is still in jail as far as I know) this year to stop them interfering with investigations, and results of those investigations might lead to more being sentenced once they're done.

[bryanrasmussen]

yes, VW was small fines. GDPR, especially for something like what is being suggested here, would be astronomical. Not saying nobody will do it, because humans are stupid.

to quote vincent vega re: the keying of his car, it would be worth having them do it, just to catch them doing it.

[carlmr]

>VW was small fines

https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/29/investing/volkswagen-diesel...

$30 billion is not small fines, add to that that it isn't over yet. It's already more than what BP paid for their oil spill, and the oil spill is thousand times worse in terms of its environmental effect.

At least in this article it's the biggest fine for any corporate crime levied.

https://www.alternet.org/economy/17-worst-corporate-crimes-2...

There are very few fines that have been higher. Hyundai only paid $100 million for their emission scandal one year before, with not much fanfare: http://time.com/3555696/hyundai-kia-fined-carbon-emissions/

[drewmol]

Or Uber using Greyball to try and evade regulatory enforcement in specific locations?