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Given the track record of how the EU has administered fines for GDPR violations there's a legal precedence for large corporations being given large fines and sm
by Scandiravian 4y ago
Given the track record of how the EU has administered fines for GDPR violations there's a legal precedence for large corporations being given large fines and smaller companies being given warnings
Claiming that open-source maintainers will get fined 15M euro is scaremongering and is not supported by legal practice in the EU
- unity1001 4y ago> there's a legal precedence "Precedent" is not a concept that applies to civil law. Its a common law tenet. > Claiming that open-source maintainers will get fined 15M euro is scaremongering Read the actual legal document. The static, non % amounts are totally left to the interpretation of the regulator in the 'legal maximums' section of the draft law. It doesnt need to be full 15 million. No Open Source contributor would risk getting fined a few dozen thousand euros. Even a few thousand is too much for anyone who contributes to Open Source.