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This is being quoted in every comment but if you have enough lawyers anything is possible. Google has come out of antitrust cases relatively unscathed. They've
by priansh 7y ago
This is being quoted in every comment but if you have enough lawyers anything is possible.
Google has come out of antitrust cases relatively unscathed. They've even violated GDPR itself once before explicitly, and got out with a 57MM$ fine. This case won't be any different than all the other times that Google has blatantly violated laws and walked away with a slap on the wrist.
I would be very very very shocked if the EU actually managed to touch Google. I welcome and hope to be proved wrong.
- yifanl 7y agoI mean, that's an entirely different class of problem. If the law literally doesn't work because of reasons, then that's just systemic corruption.
- priansh 7y agoI would argue that it's the same problem and the reason GDPR is privacy theater. It's a lot of regulations that can be worked around and the fines are hard to and rarely enforced. There are a bunch of poster children of GDPR fines that make it seem like it's doing a lot but the principal abusers (i.e. Google) just walk away with a light slap. It needs the ability to be enforced, and I think this much should be obvious to lawmakers -- a law that can't be enforced well is useless. That's why I'm calling it privacy theater. It's the EU saying "look what we did!" but in practice it doesn't really do much without enforcement that still does not exist both at a national and global scale.
- kazagistar 7y agoAs far as I know, GDPR fines are purely regulatory and never go to court. So I am not sure how the lawyers are relevant.