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GDPR would have allowed fines of up to 4% of Google's global turnover. That's a bazooka you don't use for every infraction. If Google is found to be a repeat of
by Despegar 8y ago
GDPR would have allowed fines of up to 4% of Google's global turnover. That's a bazooka you don't use for every infraction. If Google is found to be a repeat offender or fails to comply, that's probably when regulators will use that particular tool in their toolbox.
- luckylion 8y ago> That's a bazooka you don't use for every infraction. Use it once, and you won't have to use it again. I don't know the usual english translation of a quote attributed to Mao: punish one, teach one hundred. Handing out fines that actually hurt will not only teach those that receive it but also everybody else. Making knuddels.de pay €20k for leaking the data (including clear text passwords) of millions of users just says "do as you please, here's a symbolic fine, we don't mind".
- SpicyLemonZest 8y agoI mean, there's a reason that quote is attributed to Mao. When regulators fire off ruinous fines as a first resort, the lesson companies learn is not that everything will be okay if they follow the rules.
- luckylion 8y agoYou're probably right, they don't want to hurt the actors on the first offence. We shall see whether it will turn into a three-strikes system, or remain in a rather pedagogical western european fashion. It does remind me off Google vs SEO-Black-Hat-Spammers. They get caught, the get a manual penalty, they remove the worst, say they're sorry, the penalty gets lifted, they continue on.
- notahacker 8y agoThe $50bn fine gets paid and steps taken to comply in future. The $4bn fine gets more appeals and politicians dragged in.