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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by downandout on Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:57PM (#17004076)
Show me where it is written in the GDPR that this could not possibly be the result of a single violation. It's not there. Yes, it says they should consider some things when determining the fine amount. But they still have the statutory authority to impose the maximum at their discretion regardless of any other considerations.

It's not FUD when that's what the law says in black and white.

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by the_mitsuhiko on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:24PM (#17004212)
Honestly: what banana republic do you assume the EU is? No way a 20 million euro fine for a first infringement of a small company would be seen as reasonable. Scaremongering neither helps you nor anyone else here.
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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by downandout on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:39PM (#17004266)
If they intended for there to be safeguards, those would have been built in. They. Are. Not. There.
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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by portent on Saturday May 05, 2018 @07:28PM (#17004448)
I'm sure technically you are right on the written wording of the law, but you can be technically right on many subjects and make the wrong business calls. Avoiding a vanishingly small regulatory risk by making real damage to your company seems like a bad call.

You could totally eliminate the risk of meteorite impact on your business by relocating down a mineshaft...

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by stordoff on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:58PM (#17004344)
A 20€ million fine for that would not be proportionate, nor would they have taken into account the relevant factors ("the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement [...] as well as [...] and the level of damage suffered by them").

Edit: typo (proportional->proportionate)

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by downandout on Saturday May 05, 2018 @10:23PM (#17004969)
A 20€ million fine for that would not be proportionate

By whose definition? Germany might disagree with you.

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by DanBC on Sunday May 06, 2018 @05:14AM (#17005800)
Can you point to any excessive fines imposed by the German regulators under existing law?
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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by downandout on Monday May 07, 2018 @07:01PM (#17017181)
No, but they've never had the extraterritorial reach being claimed by the EU within the GDPR either.
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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by ggg9990 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:53PM (#17004322)
Courts don’t interpret laws like a Python interpreter.
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