Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR

Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:50PM (#19998312)

You last paragraph reads reallt badly: " Why is the US supreme court like that? Because like all US institutions it is created and staffed by people who are ideologically committed to the furtherance of the United States Government. They are not independent; they are fully bought into the Union agenda. " And you bit about budget is complete nonsense! Where did you even get this? These fines are minuscule compared to the EU overall budget, they aren't there to cover some kind of budget shortfall.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by repolfx on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:22PM (#20004539)

You can't make that comparison because the Supreme Court is not dedicated to the agenda of the US Government, in fact, it's not even meaningful to say the US Government has any sort of long term agenda because what the USG wants to do tends to change every time a new President or Congress gets elected.

The EU is different because it has a long term overriding Federalist agenda independent of EU elections, which can't actually change anything.

As for the budgets, maybe you're running behind the times.

Let's take the UK's budget contribution to the EU in 2017, it's about £13 billion. That's a lot of money, the UK is one of the biggest budget contributors.

Just one single fine of one single company, the 2018 fine against Google, clocks in at $5 billion! Earlier in that year the EU fined Qualcomm $1 billion. In 2017 Google was fined $2.7 billion.

The fines against US tech firms alone are in the same range as the entire contribution of one of Europe's biggest economies. There is an absolutely vast conflict of interest there, on a scale never seen before.

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