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Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services... by smueller1234 on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @02:58AM (#15755106)
The fines are indeed substantial: up to 4% of annual turnover. On top of thay they can force you to shut down the service in question until remediated. For an e-commerce company that can be even worse than the 4%.

Being fully compliant with GDPR is a mountain of work even if you thought you were doing all the right things before.

In practice, small companies/ start-ups might not be audited / reported / pursued very much but: a) you'll never know and b) at least all the big tech and e-commerce companies are smack on in the sights of several data protection and competition(!) authorities already. We're all scrambling to be compliant in time.

Source: first hand account from running the GDPR compliance project in e-commerce company.

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Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services... by posixplz on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:28AM (#15756581)
The fine is actually 4% of global annual revenue, or EUR100,000, whichever is greater.
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Re:Google collects cell tower info even if location services... by smueller1234 on Friday November 24, 2017 @02:37AM (#15769945)
Oh fair point. I propose we all start calling the 100kEUR minimum the "start-up clause". ;)
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