Google has agreed to pay a $ 22.5 million fine to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to settle charges related to Google placing tracking cookies to spy on user activity in Apple’s Safari Web browser. While $ 22.5 million is a record fine for the FTC, it’s a drop in the bucket that won’t be missed by Google and shows how US government agencies have their priorities backward.

Were you watching the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show performed by Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson? Did you see Janet Jackson’s nipple during the now-infamous “wardrobe malfunction”? Probably not. It was so brief that most of the world would never even know it happened if it hadn’t been replayed a million times in slow motion. It hardly seems worthy of any attention.