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The heavy fines everyone is fear-no getting about are a running joke now. It took 4 years and a non-profit making lots of noise for a brazen, obvious and malic
by Nextgrid 5y ago
The heavy fines everyone is fear-no getting about are a running joke now.
It took 4 years and a non-profit making lots of noise for a brazen, obvious and malicious GDPR breach to be investigated despite it being plastered on every single website out there (I’m talking about non-compliant consent popups).
To date, the accumulated fine amount over the 4 years and all fined companies is around a billion. Now lookup the profit that just one top adtech vendor makes in a year.
The spirit of the GDPR is great but its enforcement is severely lacking.
- karaterobot 5y agoYep. And you can extend that to all security compliance, not just GDPR. The biggest driver for compliance is being able to give solid answers on VSA questionnaires, not actually being secure. Certainly not fear of getting fined or failing an audit. The number of companies who get caught is so small, and the amount they get dinged for is so minuscule that it's not even a concern for them once they figure out how it works.
- DelightOne 5y agoWhen the enforcing agency works against it, its harder to effect change. Do many companies change their ways due to GDPR though? Not having too many fines may also be a testament to compliance kicking in before fines are necessary. I think the system improved the web as a whole for EU with new options for consumers despite.