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by TazeTSchnitzel 2423 days ago
I am still convinced fines will, but big investigations take a long time. There's an ongoing case about Google's real-time ad auctions for example.
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The data protection commissioners have their work cut out for them for the next decade.

It's just that the current privacy abuses of software companies are so complex and egregious that it takes a long time to sort things out.

Essentially every US company was doing things wrong for example. Just the other day I was reading LinkedIn's cookie notice which can be paraphrased as "accept our tracking commoner". And this is a bug company owned by MS, the new heroes of open source (and spyware).

It's the wild wild west out there.