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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by riffraff on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:26AM (#37522614)
GDPR already has a provision for this (it accounts for repeated violations and collaboration), and a ceiling of 4% of global revenue is quite high.
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by personomas on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:33AM (#37522694)
"quite" high? Are you serious. These fines are unbelievable.
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by malermeister on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:35AM (#37522717)
Good, they might actually work then!
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by ceejayoz on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:43AM (#37522839)
That's the point, and it's the maximum. 4% is there as the nuclear option for repeat offenders.
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by personomas on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:53AM (#37522981)
That's not what's happening at all. The GDPR laws are insane in the first place. Second, ridiculous high fines are happening on even the very first offense, even after they already changed it, like TikTok here!
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by esarbe on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:09AM (#37523192)
What exactly is insane about giving the citizens control over their own data and about making it more difficult to monetize that data?

I don't think that the fine is ridiculous high, by the way. I think it's too low.

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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by dylan604 on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:14AM (#37523273)
Unbelievably low. It's really pathetic at how not serious these fines are
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by rsynnott on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:26AM (#37523495)
And yet apparently not enough of a deterrent, because it keeps happening.
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Re:TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s... by personomas on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:57AM (#37524044)
This was a one occurrences, and TikTok stopped it 3 years ago. The laws are getting tighter and tighter (and vaguer and vaguer), that's why "it keeps happening".
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