3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far

Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far by Hamuko on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:01PM (#27269649)

Expecting another smash success like the Do Not Track header.

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Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far by atoav on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:11PM (#27269758)

If you could sue people for real money when they violate said header it might be taken more seriously pretty quickly.

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Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far by Hamuko on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:22PM (#27269890)

I don't believe that you can sue under the GDPR. I've always understood it to be something that you can lodge a complaint against someone with your local authorities. No idea about the CCPA but I wouldn't be surprised if you could considering how lawsuit-happy Americans are.

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Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far by atoav on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:35PM (#27292649)

> I don't believe that you can sue under the GDPR.

I don't believe that either, I just think that flags like these can only be taken seriously if all actors have maximum incentive to take these seriously.

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Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far by paxys on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:55PM (#27270145)

Do Not Track didn't work because (1) it was not enforced at the browser level, (2) it had no legal backing and (3) it was not granular enough to be useful. With GDPR, CCPA etc. in place the online privacy landscape is very different, and a new standard is very much possible today. Why did every site in the world implement all the consent popups in the first place when they could have continued to do nothing?

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Re:3 years of GDPR: The biggest fines so far by cm2187 on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:18PM (#27269845)

Do not track is a gentleman's agreement in a world of thugs. But you could block cookies at the browser level if the user clicks No.

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