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The Irish DPC is deliberately dragging its feet on GDPR enforcement, which is a huge problem because the majors like Facebook or Google have their European head
by fmajid 6y ago
The Irish DPC is deliberately dragging its feet on GDPR enforcement, which is a huge problem because the majors like Facebook or Google have their European headquarters there, not so coincidentally.
- sukilot 6y agoHow can a company that violates law in 13 countries just choose which country gets to enforce?
- skummetmaelk 6y agoBecause the EU is a union of sovereign states. The EU itself is not sovereign and cannot do anything at all without acting through its members. A member can simply decide not to carry out the EU's wishes. Sure there are penalties, but they take a long time to appear and are fairly minor.
- 0xFluegel 6y agoGDPR has a section that defines a way for an EU institution to "grab" cases, but that's timely and not used much (or at all, I don't know about the numbers).