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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by crysin on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:03AM (#18121740)
I keep seeing this response but I've seen no articles about the EU laying down the law and punishing these so blatantly obvious infractions. So either companies are not implementing it incorrectly or the GDPR has no teeth. The EU needs to act on these bad actors sooner than later if they want people to actually respect the spirit of the law.
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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by jorisw on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:16AM (#18121889)
Enforcement is only still starting up. Officially as of May this year, with the possibility of handing out fines for violations up to two years back from that date.

https://iapp.org/news/a/heres-why-the-first-gdpr-fines-could...

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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by ionised on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:25AM (#18121987)
That's not how any of this works. We weren't going to get fines dropping on the first day.
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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by ahartmetz on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:52AM (#18122231)
"The EU is going to extract huge fines from everyone and their dog!"

"GDPR is useless, they aren't even fining violations!"

I'm waiting for "They are applying the law inconsistently - we got away with obvious violations for a year and now we don't anymore. The injustice!"

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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by crysin on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:35AM (#18122076)
I really hope it doesn't take the EU over 4 full months to prove a cookie banner is in violation. That seems like a straight forward infraction if the way people have interpreted the law is accurate.
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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by kazen44 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:43AM (#18122140)
sigh..

the cookie banner has nothing to do with GDPR..

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Re:Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for ... by crysin on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:38PM (#18123264)
Not the old one. The new ones asking for your preferences on where your information can be sold.
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