Google, Facebook and other companies, in my opinion, are allowed to continue ignoring the law, because they provide valuable information to various services. Th

Google, Facebook and other companies, in my opinion, are allowed to continue ignoring the law, because they provide valuable information to various services. They are essentially an enormous network of unwilling spies / informants. If the data they (in my opinion) provide wasn't useful, they would have been shut down long time ago. Other thing is why even publish materials like this and what's the point of such commissions if they are toothless? Isn't that a massive waste of tax payer money? In many countries government creates various commissions to be able to give family members and associates well paid bogus jobs or pay for favours (if you vote for X, we will give a job to your wife's sister) and so on. Other reason is also to tick boxes - when asked by unscripted journalist about something, they can say look we care about this, we setup a commission...