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I keep seeing this response but I've seen no articles about the EU laying down the law and punishing these so blatantly obvious infractions. So either companies

by crysin 8y ago

I keep seeing this response but I've seen no articles about the EU laying down the law and punishing these so blatantly obvious infractions. So either companies are not implementing it incorrectly or the GDPR has no teeth. The EU needs to act on these bad actors sooner than later if they want people to actually respect the spirit of the law.

jorisw 8y ago
Enforcement is only still starting up. Officially as of May this year, with the possibility of handing out fines for violations up to two years back from that date. https://iapp.org/news/a/heres-why-the-first-gdpr-fines-could-still-be-months-away/ https://iapp.org/news/a/heres-why-the-first-gdpr-fines-could...
ionised 8y ago
That's not how any of this works. We weren't going to get fines dropping on the first day.
- crysin 8y ago
  I really hope it doesn't take the EU over 4 full months to prove a cookie banner is in violation. That seems like a straight forward infraction if the way people have interpreted the law is accurate.
  - kazen44 8y ago
    sigh.. the cookie banner has nothing to do with GDPR..
    - crysin 8y ago
      Not the old one. The new ones asking for your preferences on where your information can be sold.
- ahartmetz 8y ago
  "The EU is going to extract huge fines from everyone and their dog!" "GDPR is useless, they aren't even fining violations!" I'm waiting for "They are applying the law inconsistently - we got away with obvious violations for a year and now we don't anymore. The injustice!"