I'm actually shocked the TX legislature is doing anything remotely useful instead of fighting culture war battles. Good for them.
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This is just a rare case where the culture warriors have picked an appropriate enemy. Broken clocks and all that.
Culture warriors hate big tech because they believe big tech is "woke". Even while big tech bends over backward to protect the culture warriors' speech rights.
It's pretty wild
Soooo.... is the fine so low because they hope people will ignore it and they can generate revenue? Google, Facebook, and the big players who all will 100% break this law will pay $7500 everyday, all day and not even start to care.
7500 per instance of this happening (this is inline with other laws)
That stacks really quickly because if it violates it 100 times that is 750,000 thousand right there.
That is a small number. Something more reasonable would be much higher
I tried to read the bill but got thrown off by the dozens of definitions before the text of the bill even begins. Are you aware of a good summary of what the bill does?
Here's a nice summary I found https://www.onetrust.com/blog/data-privacy-and-security-act-passed-in-texas/
Did this actually get past Abbott’s desk tho?