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Re:No one’s ready for GDPR by fixermark on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:39PM (#17136162)
What organization is responsible for fine enforcement?

If such a fine is levied, but the company is based in China, does China have any treaties with the EU demanding the fine be enforced, or can they tell the EU to go pound sand?

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Re:No one’s ready for GDPR by yorwba on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:17PM (#17136563)
Yesterday I was presented with WeChat's Cookie policy for European users [1] for the first time, and they appear to have a European subsidiary, which could probably be fined. Of course they could just decide to fold that operation, especially considering (IANAL, but) the policy doesn't appear fully GDPR-compliant. I doubt that they are making significant profit in Europe anyway.

[1] http://www.wechat.com/mobile/htdocs/en/cookies_policy.html

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Re:No one’s ready for GDPR by kazen44 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:12PM (#17136514)
GDPR could become a global thing, because it could be used by the EU as a predecent for Free trade agreements. (which most nations in the world are happy to sign).
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Re:No one’s ready for GDPR by fixermark on Friday May 25, 2018 @02:06PM (#17156375)
It could, but with controversial concepts like "right to be forgotten" baked into the GDPR, I don't assume most nations will necessarily be happy to sign "free" trade that requires them to rewrite history records.
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