“Deletion of data and a possible fine.” Oh no, how will the billion dollar company cope with a $2m fine that all goes to the corrupt government officials anyway.
Fine is just the warning. Noncompliance can get the company kicked out of France/EU.
I’ll believe it when it happens ONCE.
To be fair, GDPR fines can go up to 2% of worldwide revenue. Meta was hit by a $1.3G fine just this year, which for 2022 fiscal year ($116.6G) accounts for 1.1% of their revenue.
But yeah. Most fines are mostly just the cost of business for those billionaire companies, and the ones that may not be, the army of lawyers they pay a fortune to have on payroll to fight tooth and nail against them is cheaper than what those fines really end up costing them.
2% of revenue is nothing
They’ll just cut 10% of workers out and the extra 8% goes to corporate bonuses
Have they paid it?
The DPC also acknowledged it had been overruled by the European Data Protection Board, a body comprising EU member state data and privacy regulators, on some aspects of its decision.
LOL
Are you suggesting they can not pay and still operate in EU? If so, based on what?
And what are you LOLing about? Did you read the next sentence? Did you understand it?
One tip for ousting certain leaks is with gmail you can setup an email address like youremail+scummycompany@gmail.com you just have to forgo the login with google bit
I can imagine that spammers nowadays can write a simple script that drops everything from the + to the @, so while that may work for some spammers, others will just use your normal email address. I’ve resorted to creating a catchall for my personal domain. Also not ideal, but it’ll hopefully take them a while to figure that one out for everyone using their own domain.
A better tip is to buy a domain with an email forwarder configured. I have an infinite number of emails and I can see who’s selling my data by checking what the email user is set to, since I usually sign up with an address related to the service I’m using.
Some apps let you create an email account first then link socials/OAuth providers on top, so there’s that. But other times it’s indeed a good solution. Unless the site uses validation that doesn’t allow for subaddress extension.
