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I used the introductory example in response to the request of "extremely punitive" fines. Extreme fines lead to companies trying to be clever in hiding their fa

I used the introductory example in response to the request of "extremely punitive" fines. Extreme fines lead to companies trying to be clever in hiding their faults. Moderate fines more likely lead to companies coming out by themselves. On the comparison with overweight trucks: I doubt anybody builds an insecure system to gain an economical benefit, not using state-of-the-art technology is a mistake/stupidity/carelessness/.... "See how much money we earned from saving CPU time of bcrypt!" nobody said.

pbhjpbhj 8y ago
>Moderate fines more likely lead to companies coming out by themselves. I can't recall ever hearing of a company coming forward to declare they broke the law and so should pay a fine. Could anyone give us a couple of high profile examples? Do you have any support for your assertion that punitive fines don't stimulate regulatory compliance but small fines do?
- johannes1234321 8y ago
  Yes. The case we are talking about. "Das Unternehmen hatte sich am 08. September 2018 mit einer Datenpannenmeldung an den LfDI gewandt [...] Gegenüber dem LfDI legte das Unternehmen in vorbildlicher Weise sowohl Datenverarbeitungs- und Unternehmensstrukturen als auch eigene Versäumnisse offen." ("The company contacted the data protection agency on September 8th 2018[...] In exemplary manner they gave access to company and data management processes and highlighted their on omissions") https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LfDI-Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg-verh%C3%A4ngt-sein-erstes-Bu%C3%9Fgeld-in-Deutschland-nach-der-DS-GVO.pdf https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/wp-content/upl...