That's simply because the penalty of violating the law is no more than a breeze in comparison to their revenue.

The fee is up to 4% of facebooks annual worldwide revenue ... That would be ~2bn $

So far the responsible DPC just ignores the complaints though: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-handles-9993-gdpr-complaints-wi...

Quite. Who are mere German public officials to question the rectitude of an organisation as august as Facebook?

To be fair, it seems like the German public office have not done their work and have some thing incorrect. As such, it doesn't apply.

That German authority interprets the law in some way, Facebook interprets it in some other way. i assume the courts will decide. Seems reasonable to me.

When it comes to my data, I’d rather not have them use it until forbidden. I want it to be not Used until explicitly allowed