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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by onetimemanytime on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:23PM (#17420593)
>>Anyone can sue you over any civil law. Then teh courts decides. GDPR is not magically different. This is a straw man.

Yeah, but in this case that "anyone" is not spending a dime of his own, instead the limitless resources of EU will be coming after you. By the time the court decides, virtually any small company will bankrupt.

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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by oblio on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:01PM (#17420847)
The EU has a budget about the size of the Romanian one, a country with a GDP of €200bn. Their budget is minuscule by country standards.
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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by bmer on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:44PM (#17422231)
Why the assumption that the EU won't side with you, and will definitely only side with the person making the claim? Certainly, if you're compliant, there's a very good chance that you'll get off the complaint, yeah?
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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by elygre on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:07AM (#17422537)
The limitless resources of the government is never applied to all laws. Regulatory institutions are budget constrained like the rest of us, and will prioritize what it considers to be the worst cases.
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