# Dutch court ordered LinkedIn to pay 50.000 euro for keep placing tracking cookies

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/dutch-court-ordered-linkedin-to-pay-50-000-euro-for-keep-placing-tracking-cookies/25187
**Category:** News
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**Created:** 2025-02-21T12:36:09Z
**Posts:** 6

## Post 1 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-02-21T12:36:09Z

> **[Nederlandse gebruiker krijgt €50.000 na cookie-fittie met LinkedIn](https://www.quotenet.nl/zakelijk/a63768639/nederlandse-gebruiker-50000-cookie-fittie-linkedin/)**
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> Een Nederlandse gebruiker van LinkedIn raakte in conflict met het zakelijke sociale medium en diens moederbedrijf Microsoft nadat het bedrijf tracking cookies van deze gebruiker had uitgelezen. De rechtbank oordeelt dat LinkedIn deze gebruiker nu een...

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## Post 2 by @TinFoilHat — 2025-02-21T12:43:37Z

50k EUR for GDPR breach at this scale, If I was MS I would simply budget 100M a year for the fines and keep sucking all “illegal” / “unconsented” user data. :rofl:

Well apparently it is what many Big Tech do.

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## Post 3 by @SteelPirate1458 — 2025-02-21T12:45:45Z

Excellent! That will teach LinkedIn and their parent company Microsoft not to mess with cookies and our data! With LinkedIn revenue of $15 billion in 2023, they’ll miss that €50k for sure!

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## Post 4 by @phnx — 2025-02-21T12:52:36Z

I think this is a reasonable judgement against a single individual. The unfortunate part is the fact that LinkedIn really should be held liable for the same egregious practices against all users within the EU.

50 000 € times [50 000 000 EU users](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-eu-reports-shed-light-actual-linkedin-usage-amidst-member-v1enf) is a cool 2 500 000 000 000 € (2,5 trillion :sweat_smile:).

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## Post 5 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-02-21T13:27:39Z

While this is a nice president i dont think it would lead to this amount in clas action. But it would be good to see more of this. Not that i dont hibk it is fair, it is definitely a legitmate amount

The impact of the media coverage and legal costs should also not be under estimated with these cases.

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## Post 6 by @phnx — 2025-02-21T15:04:34Z

2,5 trillion is, of course, a completely ludicrous number, but at the same time, the obvious solution for LinkedIn would be to just follow the law, which shouldn’t be an unreasonable expectation. Even 0,1% of 2,5 trillion would represent the largest GDPR fine in history by a significant margin.