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With all due respect 800.000 is a moderate amount looking at some awards in the consumer space in the US considering that we are looking here at a situation whe
by heisenbit 4y ago
With all due respect 800.000 is a moderate amount looking at some awards in the consumer space in the US considering that we are looking here at a situation where eavesdropping on other people in the privacy of their homes is involved.
- can16358p 4y agoThey could simply warn the company if they thought that would really be a problem. Fining 800k is ridiculous. If they can do this, they can attack anyone with a similar reasoning, which effectively turns GDPR into a weapon. Yeah, 800k might not be much, but the ideology is the problem here, not the amount.
- thombat 4y agoThe amount of the fine is explained in the bulletin you are commenting upon: "The amount of the fine was decided regarding the breaches identified, the number of people concerned, but also taking into account the efforts made by the company throughout the procedure to reach compliance and the fact that its business model is not based on the exploitation of personal data." So evidently there was a dialog with the company during which they remedied much of the fault. Isn't that exactly the sort of approach you'd want from a regulator?