they should prove damages before setting fines like this.
the american gov is spending billions upon billions to defend the eu and they have the gall to nitpick & set 7 to 9 fig fines using %revenue (extortion) on their companies, which are btw providing valuable services (for free) to eu citizens. beyond ridiculous, especially with no sensible cap on the fines.
all the gdpr has done is make the web more miserable, someone from the usgov should give a call to the data protection office or wtv to remind them of their actual importance in the grand scheme of things.
and this is ignoring the damage they're doing to their own tech ecosystem with this over-regulation.
The profit Meta et al make just appears out of thin air. It's so kind of these companies to use the income they get from their money trees to altruistically provide free services to anyone.
Jokes aside: The cost may be hidden, but you're still the one who pays.
> all the gdpr has done is make the web more miserable
For those in the US? Perhaps, at least if we only look at the direct impact.
In the EU it made all sorts of privacy abuse that's completely standard and accepted in the US (credit agencies, payroll companies, etc. etc. sharing all sorts of information with anyone who asks/pays in addition to online tracking) legally impossible.
the american gov is spending billions upon billions to defend the eu and they have the gall to nitpick & set 7 to 9 fig fines using %revenue (extortion) on their companies, which are btw providing valuable services (for free) to eu citizens. beyond ridiculous, especially with no sensible cap on the fines.
all the gdpr has done is make the web more miserable, someone from the usgov should give a call to the data protection office or wtv to remind them of their actual importance in the grand scheme of things.
and this is ignoring the damage they're doing to their own tech ecosystem with this over-regulation.