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RGPD has a max fine of 4% of world revenue exactly because the previous maximum fine was a joke to google and facebook who just paid and went about their day.
by bigbugbag 8y ago
RGPD has a max fine of 4% of world revenue exactly because the previous maximum fine was a joke to google and facebook who just paid and went about their day.
How yould facebook go undercover with their data collection ? every thing they do is provide an infrastructure for data collection.
- fiblye 8y agoFacebook will keep collecting data for organizations like the NSA and it's silly to think that they wouldn't. At best, they won't be sharing data or storing it in the EU. Most likely, they'll be gathering and sharing data with EU governments for surveillance purposes but not for public organizations. And really, my concern is more with governments building digital profiles of everyone rather than advertisers. Give it a couple years and there'll likely be a leak revealing that nothing has significantly affected the main meat of the mega corps' data gathering, someone will say "mistakes were made but we're looking into it", a year later some investigators will say that they can't really do anything because it's technically outside the scope of the law, and it'll vanish until another leak happens the next year.
- frockington 8y agoAnd who is going to enforce they pay that? If the EU tries to flex its muscles FB could just pull out. And highly doubt the EU is going to do anything controversial in the near future with the Union begining to fragment
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"And who is going to enforce they pay that?" The EU. Remember, Facebook is an Irish company, headquartered in Dublin.
- frockington 8y agoCan the EU have police arrest an Irish FB employees? I'm asking because I have zero knowledge on how the EU enforces their policies
- s73v3r_ 8y agoIt would literally be no different than if FB was violating a US regulation.