If fines are not proportional to wealth, and sufficiently large enough to prevent reoffending, they are only a penalty for the poor.

This is an insignificant overhead to one of the richest corpos on Earth, but I'd expect nothing less from plutocratic fake-democracies.

While the settlement appears to be a victory for Apple users after months of mediation, it potentially lets Apple off the hook pretty cheaply. If the court had certified the class action and Apple users had won, Apple could've been fined more than $1.5 billion under the Wiretap Act alone, court filings showed.