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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by fmajid on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:49AM (#23757769)
The Irish DPC is deliberately dragging its feet on GDPR enforcement, which is a huge problem because the majors like Facebook or Google have their European headquarters there, not so coincidentally.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by sukilot on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:01AM (#23758265)
How can a company that violates law in 13 countries just choose which country gets to enforce?
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by skummetmaelk on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:13AM (#23758353)
Because the EU is a union of sovereign states. The EU itself is not sovereign and cannot do anything at all without acting through its members. A member can simply decide not to carry out the EU's wishes. Sure there are penalties, but they take a long time to appear and are fairly minor.
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Re:Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked by 0xFluegel on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:56AM (#23759303)
GDPR has a section that defines a way for an EU institution to "grab" cases, but that's timely and not used much (or at all, I don't know about the numbers).
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