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Honestly: what banana republic do you assume the EU is? No way a 20 million euro fine for a first infringement of a small company would be seen as reasonable. S
by the_mitsuhiko 9y ago
Honestly: what banana republic do you assume the EU is? No way a 20 million euro fine for a first infringement of a small company would be seen as reasonable. Scaremongering neither helps you nor anyone else here.
- downandout 9y agoIf they intended for there to be safeguards, those would have been built in. They. Are. Not. There.
- stordoff 9y agoA 20€ million fine for that would not be proportionate, nor would they have taken into account the relevant factors ("the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement [...] as well as [...] and the level of damage suffered by them"). Edit: typo (proportional->proportionate)
- downandout 9y agoA 20€ million fine for that would not be proportionate By whose definition? Germany might disagree with you.
- DanBC 9y agoCan you point to any excessive fines imposed by the German regulators under existing law?
- downandout 9y agoNo, but they've never had the extraterritorial reach being claimed by the EU within the GDPR either.
- portent 9y agoI'm sure technically you are right on the written wording of the law, but you can be technically right on many subjects and make the wrong business calls. Avoiding a vanishingly small regulatory risk by making real damage to your company seems like a bad call. You could totally eliminate the risk of meteorite impact on your business by relocating down a mineshaft...