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Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by MichaelRazum on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:05AM (#29823048)
Most people are celebrating it here. BUT are google, facebook and co the only companies that get punished for this? Seems really weird to be honest if true. How about French companies?
Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by costent on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:18AM (#29823173)
They are punishing French companies.

Carrefour got a spicy +3M€ fine in November 2020.

You can find a non-exhaustive list here (FR) > https://www.nextinpact.com/recherche;q=cnil%20amende

Also, GDPR applies as long as the company runs a business in EU. It doesn't matter where the company is originally from. They will be more than happy to fine the french entity if it made sens. Instead, they fine the Irish entity that performs social dumping. Not bad.

Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by ErikCorry on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:49AM (#29823481)
So Carrefour got a fine that was only 2% of Google's fine.

Carrefour has revenue of 80bn/year (Google has 68bn/year in Europe).

Very spicy indeed.

"The complainants argued that Carrefour (1) did not comply with their data access or erasure requests; (2) sent them direct marketing communications despite the fact that the complainants had objected to receiving those communications; or (3) in one case, did not allow the complainant to unsubscribe to marketing emails."

This all seems a lot worse to me than making one button harder to press than the other.

Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by finikytou on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:07AM (#29823064)
surely u not one of the guys who blamed trumpists for telling how clinton was corrupt?
Re:Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance ... by MichaelRazum on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:11AM (#29823096)
How is it related? I think this is a very bad comment that is not related to the topic.