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by Hasknewbie 2951 days ago
I doubt they will get anything near the max penalty, if they get fined anything at all, since we're now in the 1-year grace period.
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Actually how I see it, Google and Facebook are blatantly trying to downplay user rights under GDPR and people must be blind not to see it. I think they deserve a harsh punishment.
Grace period was for past 2 years and it is over and surely, they will be warned first, but I bet noyb isn't the only one filling complaint.

https://iapp.org/news/a/icos-wood-gdpr-grace-period-no-way/

I stand corrected. It was my impression from multiple articles that fines would not be an immediate enforcement.

However, as much as I would like them to get slapped around, I believe the likes of Facebook are too smart/nefarious to act the way they do without having some sort of plan or escape hatch that would have them dodge said fines.