Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches

Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches by Barrin92 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:01PM (#27069003)

Yes if push comes to shove they could obviously just shut down websites or go after companies that continue to use Disqus and they in turn will drop it. There's also plenty of countries outside the EU who have adopted GDPR compatible laws and so the EU could likely pursue them in their national jurisdictions. Also EU and US regulatory agencies tend to cooperate routinely because it's in either case to keep market access so if the case is large enough I wouldn't bet on being sheltered from enforcement.

There was for example one case of Canadian firm 'AggregateIQ' being pursued by the UK's ICO over privacy violations, and Canadian regulators agreed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/brexit-data-fi...

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Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches by upofadown on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:02PM (#27069973)

The article does not contain the string "ICO". The article describes enforcement of Canadian privacy law against a Canadian company.

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Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches by Barrin92 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:07PM (#27070012)

The ICO's GDPR enforcement action is what set this in motion, (which to be honest is the first result on Google if you want the entire saga)

https://iapp.org/news/a/ico-serves-aggregateiq-with-first-ev...

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Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches by upofadown on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:15PM (#27070067)

The article contains no reference to the Canadian enforcement action. It is about a European enforcement action against the Canadian company in question for work it did in Europe.

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Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches by Barrin92 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:19PM (#27070088)

Dude are you intentionally trying to be obtuse. The British data watchdog noticed that a Canadian company, AggregateIQ, was mistreating data relating to the Brexit campaign. It then talked to the Canadian data watchdog, which pursued a privacy inquiry against said company because of its mistreatment of British user data. This is one of the first examples of the sort of extrajudicial enforcement of GDPR that OP wanted to know about, Jesus.

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Re:Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches by upofadown on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:06PM (#27071134)

There might of been some sort of extrajudicial enforcement of the GDPR in this case, but the second article presented only showed that intrajudicial enforcement of the GDPR occurred based on actions that took place inside the EU with respect to the data of people living in the EU.

The first article actually doesn't mention any enforcement at all in Canada, just comments by a provincial and the federal privacy commissioner. Those comments were entirely based on Canadian law, not the GDPR.

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