Bad news: you’ve been fined for mishandling user data
Oh no! How much?
Half a mil.
Ouch.
Well, you shouldn’t worry – your revenues last year were £31.5bn, so you can defo afford it.
Yeah. We’ve reached that point whereby, if there’s a fifty-pound note left on the office carpet, it’s easier to just vacuum it up than actually pick it up and stick it in our pocket.
Oh, I do that too, but with 2ps. Also, the fine could have been much worse; under the new ICO regulatory system it would have been more than a billion pounds. But you were punished under the previous system.
Phew! A billion quid is quite a lot more…
Indeed. By the way, do you think the chancellor read your letter asking not to be taxed? That handy arrangement would help us out should we be fined again in future…
The one where we said we’d cut investment in the UK if we had to operate like every other business?
That’s the one.
Oh yes. I’m pretty sure he read it…we know everything, about everyone after all…
Indeed you do. As you like to say at HQ: Thumbs up, old chap. Thumbs up.
