Big tech needs less than three weeks to pay off more than $8 billion in fines due by 2024

Big Tech companies needed just 16 days and 21 hours to pay off the more than $8.2 billion in fines accrued by 2024 for violating your privacy and competition rules.

This is the shocking finding from Proton, the Swiss privacy company behind one of the best VPN and secure email services on the market. The team compared the free cash flow availability of the big four – Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta – with the fines these companies received worldwide throughout the year.