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Billion-dollar fines can only happen if the company in question had a revenue of €25B per year and was hit with the maximum fine. But either way, enforcement is
by robin_reala 5y ago
Billion-dollar fines can only happen if the company in question had a revenue of €25B per year and was hit with the maximum fine. But either way, enforcement is absolutely happening: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ has over a 1,000 rulings in its DB.
- Nextgrid 5y agoIt's not enough. That link gets posted all the time but it just shows that over 4 years, across all companies, the total fine amount is just over 1Bn. How much does Google or Facebook profit from non-consensual data processing in just a single year?
- goodpoint 5y agoClearly the EU wants to give companies the time to adapt. Internet privacy has been a laissez-faire dystopian wasteland for decades. Even with the current very gentle enforcement, GDPR has received a lot of push back and called draconian (by those who benefit from corporate surveillance).