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:shrug: I’m not a GDPR lawyer and further most of it doesn’t have precedent yet so we aren’t sure how its going to fall out. I did work on a GDPR compliance ef

:shrug: I’m not a GDPR lawyer and further most of it doesn’t have precedent yet so we aren’t sure how its going to fall out. I did work on a GDPR compliance effort in an industry where it is big important (real time bidding ads) and our lawyers, while hedging, were not at all worried about random lawsuits. Their opinion was that we would easily be able to submit to the courts that the complaints needed to go through the authorities first.

tzs 7y ago
I did see one legal firm blog that said they expected a lot of lawsuits from individuals, but most blogs and reports I saw seemed to think it there won't be a lot of them. If there are any, they probably won't be a big deal for the defendants. An individual lawsuit is limited to compensation for the damages suffered. In most cases, that just won't be very much, and so probably won't be worth the time and effort to pursue. Only supervisory authorities can can impose punitive measures such as fines based on revenue. Those are the only things likely to actually make a difference. Also I get the impression that European regulators are more responsive than US regulators. Europeans report things to regulators first and expect them to be taken care of. Contrast that to Americans who are far more likely to view the regulators as ineffective and turn first to a lawsuit.