Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regulator in France

Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by phendrenad2 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:17AM (#33639166)

Have those other laws been enforced against Discord? Also, pulling out of one zone because they enforced (what you believe to be an onerous) a law against you is always valid, it'll make the others think hard about enforcing the law against you.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by balaga01 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:44AM (#33639509)

> it'll make the others think hard about enforcing the law against you.

We are not talking about some high-security military stuff here, it's only a chat app.

It might be a big part of your world, but I can guarantee you that if they try to pull that off nobody in any government would care.

I am pretty sure of the contrary actually: that several governments in EU have dreams of getting rid of these platform, and that they can't do it because that would be illegal.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by phendrenad2 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:09PM (#33645746)

If every chat app makes the same determination and disables itself in the EU no one will care? I doubt that.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by InCityDreams on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:49AM (#33639592)

Vpn's exist. I fairly frequently come up against us websites that tell 'content not available in your area due to gdpr'. Thankfully the vpn i use is three clicks and I'm in America.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by phendrenad2 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:09PM (#33645749)

Not many people use VPNs.

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