Melina Carrillo

Should privacy fines be tied to a technology company’s global revenue?

Turnover tells us how big a company is, not how badly it behaved. A narrow retention mistake and a deliberate sale of sensitive records should not start from the same revenue-based threat. The [GDPR data](https://cms.law/en/pol/publication/gdpr-enforcement-tracker-report/numbers-and-figures) also show a few regulators dominate the largest cases, so legal exposure can depend heavily on venue. Base penalties on people harmed, sensitivity, duration, and repeat conduct instead.

Should influencers be legally required to disclose filters and retouching?

My daughter is fourteen. Last year she asked me whether her nose looked wrong compared to the girls she follows, girls who sell lip gloss with faces that do not exist in nature. France passed a law in June 2023 requiring influencers to label retouched or filtered commercial photos, with fines up to 75,000 euros, and the sky did not fall. The Dove Self-Esteem Project's research has found that a large majority of girls say retouched media damages their body image. [Dove](https://www.dove.com/us/en/dove-self-esteem-project.html). When a post is an ad, the viewer deserves to know the product being sold includes a face the seller does not have. We already require ad labels on sponsored posts. This is the same principle, applied to the image itself.

Genuine question for the "abolish" side: what happens the day after? Like mechanically. Who takes the shares, who runs the companies, what stops the next guy?

Politics · Oct 6, 2026 · Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

The stolen diary line nails it. Deletion after the sale is theater. The data was already copied, resold, and merged a dozen times. Only money makes the harm concrete.

Business · Sep 23, 2026 · Should companies be required to pay customers when they misuse location data?