# Billions in profits, millions in fines! – On my Om

<https://om.co/2024/05/04/billion-in-profits-million-in-fines-why-bigcos-dont-care-about-our-data-privacy/>

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## What Jamie wrote

$200 million in fines to four different carriers for illegally selling our location data means nothing. Totally agree with Malik here that until the cost of misusing data goes up we will not see any improvements.

## Facts

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