Re:Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
by Nasrudith on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:53AM
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It sounds like a fear of backlash - essentially if you find like 3% of the population with parking tickets it is fine. If you fine 40% to 60% then you get a large contingent pissed off at you - regardless of validity of the laws and enforcement unpopularity is perilous to laws and officials.
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Re:Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
by mamon on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:55AM
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If 40% to 60% of population gets fined then that means the law is stupid* and should be abolished. Backlash on law enforcement is totaly understandable.
*"stupid" is relative term. Laws are made for particular society, if almost a half of that society disagrees with the rule then it shouldn't be a rule.
Re:Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
by danielbarla on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:27PM
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With this logic, there's essentially no regulatory way out of local minima, lemon markets and such. And, the freemium for personal data mining model is very much such a situation.
And I don't think it's a fair statement that any large percentage of _people_ oppose this particular law; in my experience, most people don't seem to have a strong opinion about it, and those that do have a strong negative opinion very often don't really understand it (and are mostly reacting to the irritation that the various stakeholders are deliberately putting them through). Sampling the opinion of companies that live off ads is a bit like asking printer companies how they feel about toner prices.
Re:Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
by birksherty on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:17PM
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Not half of society, half of profit at any cost companies that doesn't care about ethics ever.
So great laws actually even if gets 100% of those.