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Re:Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over pr... by mrjin on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:01AM (#27128866)
That's simply because the penalty of violating the law is no more than a breeze in comparison to their revenue.
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Re:Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over pr... by klaustopher on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:32AM (#27129074)
The fee is up to 4% of facebooks annual worldwide revenue ... That would be ~2bn $
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Re:Germany bans Facebook from handling WhatsApp data over pr... by qznc on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:35AM (#27129100)
So far the responsible DPC just ignores the complaints though: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-handles-9993-gdpr-complaints-wi...
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