Hey, I’m middle European guy and I watched the Facebook trial few years ago. They lost also because they sold user data illegally and was fined accordingly. That’s cool, right. But those data were also of european citizens, some of that, also mine probably, but I didn’t get any money from Facebook and also nobody I asked get any soo.. we are victims but and the Facebook was convicted of the crime and had to pay a fine to.. someone else? To who?
Thanks for explanation
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The fine was assessed by the European Union and was presumably treated as revenue by them. The EU seems to spend about 300 billion Euro per year on [various things](https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/budget/spending_en). That spending is ultimately funded by payments from member nations, which in turn get the money from taxes, bonds, etc.
So you can think of the Facebook fine as either enabling the EU to buy more of the stuff it was already buying, or as decreasing the amount that your home country (and, by extension, you) has to pay them. Just keep in mind that dividing 1.5 billion Euro across ~500 million people comes out to about 3 Euro per person, so either way the effect will be small.
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