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Not every country in the EU has precedent based law, also what could be considered bad in one EU country not necessarily could be considered bad in another give

• chronial 8y ago
  Precedents matter everywhere. In countries where precedents are not law, decisions from higher-level courts are still guiding the decisions of lower-level courts – so the effect is somewhat similar.
• curun1r 8y ago
  It's possible that the poster above isn't talking about legal precedents and instead talking about practical precedents. After spending about a month building a GDPR consent tool and now seeing many other "compliance" efforts on various sits around the web, it's become clear to me that most businesses are taking a wait-and-see approach. They're doing the minimum necessary to claim they tried to comply while changing absolutely nothing about the way they do business. They're waiting to see how serious enforcement of the law is before making changes that negatively impact their business. It's not about whether they'd lose in court or have a regulatory judgment against them, it's about the likelihood that non-compliance will get them in trouble. If EU regulators show a willingness to do the legwork to fine smaller companies, you'll start to see a lot of these site become much more compliant. But those companies are not going to spend all that time and money proactively only to see that the EU doesn't have the teeth to enforce the rules, so they need practical precedents of companies being hit with huge non-compliance fines to scare them into making the necessary changes.