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by a_imho 2700 days ago
Google is the elephant, but it is very rare to see compliant services/sites. The interesting question is when/if EU is going to flex its GDPR muscles.
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Never. This is used as another tool to selectively target companies the EU doesn't like while maintaining appearances.
Germany (well, German states actually) alone has handed out fines to 41 companies, and has hundreds of proceedings in flight (i.e. one German state is currently investigating 50 local companies), the vast majority against locals. The average cases just don't make headlines, especially not in english-speaking media, because who cares?