Edit: for anyone wondering SAP has ~110,000 employees worldwide, Google has ~180,000, so comparably mega scale tech company.
I am not sure that is completely correct, considering SAP's cloud offerings.
SAP runs your instance, but isn't responsible for what you do with it.
I'm absolutely in favor of making it impossible for adtech to make any profit at all as long as they build their business on monetizing user data and exposing their users to all kinds of hazards.
I find it funny that so few people here see a problem with that kind of behavior. It's as if they expect society to serve the market, instead of the other way around.
Ironically, currently 2023 entries.
I was really expecting better comments from hackernews. If we're talking about vibes you should acknowledge that it makes sense for the EU to protect their people and their personal information from really large foreign companies. Even more so from companies that are aligned with the state that has one of the largest military powers in the world.
You really shouldn't on topics related to the EU. There is an incredible amount of misinformation peddled, and asking for sources or actual analysis beyond simple statements that keep being repeated is usually met with either silence or insults.
No. All I did was opening enforcement tracker, click on France, and look for familiar names. It was faster than writing my previous comment. I knew about one of the Carrefour cases, and the Criteo case though.
>The authoritarianism and the insanity of the laws in the first place is/are a far bigger problem
What is authoritarian or insane in GDPR? Or its previous iteration, the DPD (from 1995)? Oh no, we expect companies to handle personal data with care, the horror.
Some of these do business in foreign countries, but all of them are unmistakably Dutch.
I've left out the largest news organisation in the Netherlands, the Belgian company BPG Media, but they have bought up a bunch of local news organisations.
Non-EU-originating companies on the list: - Tiktok - locatefamily.com
Tiktok got fined by the Dutch DPA for not providing their privacy statement in Dutch while still doing business in the Netherlands. Further research into Tiktok was transferred to the Irish DPA (this fine). I suppose the Dutch DPA could've lodged a complaint with the Irish DPA for not providing the necessary documents in Dutch, but that seems rather silly to me.
locatefamily.com did not have EU representation at all so there was no need to process the complaint anywhere else. I doubt the fine will ever be collected, but who knows, maybe the owners are stupid enough to open a business in Europe somewhere down the line.
Also EU companies tend to be more mindful and take data protection very seriously, even before GDPR was a thing, so finding gross offenders is a rare occurrence anyway.