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That's insane. What's a "single" infraction? It doesn't distinguish between revenue and profit? 4% of global revenue could be more than the total of all profit
by goialoq 9y ago
That's insane. What's a "single" infraction?
It doesn't distinguish between revenue and profit? 4% of global revenue could be more than the total of all profit and salaries.
- alasdair_ 9y ago"Profit" can be kept at zero essentially forever. Revenue is much harder to hide.
- kuschku 9y ago> 4% of global revenue could be more than the total of all profit and salaries. That’s the point. Google recently came of comparatively well with a 4 billion EUR fine, but 2 more fines of the same height for Google are expected. The only way to force a company to follow a law is to make infringing the law more expensive than any profit you could ever dream of making from it.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoThen they better do their best not to infringe the privacy rights of EU citizens then, eh?
- geocar 9y agoYes. And European courts consider intent carefully. Mere aggregation of personal data isn’t necessarily a violation, but using it commercially almost certainly is.
- geocar 9y ago> What's a "single" infraction? There are lots of things that constitute an infraction: the GDPR aims to broadly protect EU citizen rights. Some infractions can be per individual harmed.