system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:If a major company like Google gets fined by a country for breaking say, a privacy law, where does that money go to and what does it get used for?
gpt
That depends entirely on the country doing the fining. In some countries, that money would go to the country's Treasury, to be spent on whatever they need.

In other countries, it goes to the regulatory agencies that issued the fine, and is used on their future investigations.

Lastly, in other countries, the money goes to the victims of whatever violation got the company fined in the first place.