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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 @08:02PM (#17004577)
There's no reason for them to do that

Sure there is. Their government will be the direct beneficiary of the money. Why would they care if they bankrupt a foreign company? In fact, they may use it for this explicit purpose. They win by collecting the money, and they win by decimating foreign competitors of local businesses.

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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by kelnos on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:02PM (#17017577)
I get that you're incredibly cynical about this process (and probably any government process), but I really don't see it as dire as you do. I don't think any further discussion will be productive, though, since we seem to be operating under some vastly different base assumptions about human behavior.
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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by M2Ys4U on Saturday May 05, 2018 @09:34PM (#17004849)
Data protection authorities have to be independent of government according to the GDPR.
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Re:Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply wit... by downandout on Sunday May 06, 2018 @12:58AM (#17005272)
They have to be citizens of the given country, do they not? They probably wouldn’t mind their government collecting a few extra million from foreign businesses. It still goes to their benefit.
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