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"OK Google" ;-) Facebook, Amazon... please stay in line!!! :-D I saw so many website, big or small, implementing the GDPR the easy way and call it a day... wi
by olivierduval 8y ago
"OK Google" ;-)
Facebook, Amazon... please stay in line!!! :-D
I saw so many website, big or small, implementing the GDPR the easy way and call it a day... without any thinking or consideration for their users... that now everybody may gonna think twice ?
Google was an example, a message. That's why CNIL chose such a big player
1) it's to big to be really hurt by the fine
2) most other business - a lot smaller - will be frightened and will re-think their slacking approach
It's a way to say "don't mess with us".
The funniest part is that usually the US administration try to help US business in such case. But I don't think that Trump administration - moreover during shutdown - will...
- klez 8y ago> That's why CNIL chose such a big player FWIW, CNIL didn't choose a big player. They're responding to complaints advanced by the two associations mentioned in TFA, that is La Quadrature du Net and None Of Your Business.
- olivierduval 8y agoYou're right. In fact, they could have choose Google, because they may act by their own without any complaint. But they choose the amount ;-)
- DannyBee 8y agoWhat? Of course they chose. They have received the same complaints about literally thousands of companies, and chose to advance these two first. Regulators (no matter where) always make strategic decisions about who to prosecute and when. That's part of the job. I'm not sure why we are trying to pretend they are robotic automatons who just process complaints exactly as received.
- puzzle 8y agoIn interviews back before GDPR, the CNIL stated that, when the maximum fines allowed weren't enough, they saw the PR embarrassment of making their rulings public, which is not required, an even higher punishment for Google. So they have been making strategic decisions for a while.