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by hartator 2996 days ago
Sorry to break it to you, but having live both in EU, and now in the US, I still got more email spam from France.

Laws like this are broad and overreaching, but they are rarely enforced.
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cakeface 2996 days ago
GDPR has much higher punishments for breaking it than previous EU privacy laws. Many companies are taking the legislation seriously due to this. I expect GDPR to be actually useful in moving the line for privacy.
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floatrock 2996 days ago
For these kinds of violations, fines can be "up to €20 million, or 4% of the worldwide annual revenue of the prior financial year, whichever is higher"

https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/

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rando444 2996 days ago
The GDPR won't be implemented for another month and a half.
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aleksei 2996 days ago
GDPR is active now. It has been for almost two years.

It is just now becoming enforced (with all its sanctions), after the two-year transition period.

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TeMPOraL 2996 days ago
That's why people only start caring now, at the very last minute. There's a difference between a law on paper, and a law with attached consequences, so I still expect meaningful change after May 25th.
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TomMarius 2995 days ago
Yes, the EU regulation, but the actual laws are not active.
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icebraining 2996 days ago
Have you complained to the regulator? I'm not in France, but it has generally worked for me.
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tgragnato 2996 days ago
Today, I requested assistance from the authority for the first time.

And I’m eager to see how my request will be handled.

Do you have any suggestion? You seem pretty accustomed to it.

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icebraining 2996 days ago
Which authority specifically? My experience is with two Portuguese regulators (one of Data Protection, other of Telecommunications). The first was pretty good, the second required a bit of insistence to prevent them from closing the matter after the company sent a reply that said nothing, but both worked out with nothing more than a few emails.
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tgragnato 2996 days ago
With the Italian Data Protection authority. http://gpdp.it

I wanted to know if emails are enough, but you already answered that. I'll need to test how numerically "a few" is.

My fear is that the process will take too much effort, it would be useless if rules were not enforced.

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