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by ghusto 1325 days ago
He says the Swedish government ignores GDPR complaints, because they're unconstitutional. I don't understand how that could work though. I mean, unless EU laws are like "You must follow these laws! Unless you don't want to".
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Member states often don't fully follow EU law. Yes, it's theoretically forbidden, but only the most extreme cases lead to repercussions.
EU legislation is built into the constitution of EU members, so I'm not sure either what they are talking about.
And he is wrong. GDPR is Swedish law, and governments take GDPR issues very seriously. Every community must by law have a GDPR compliance officer responsible for handling issues and reporting them to the government.

There has been some quite public cases where government orgs, communities have been fined for GDPR violations. And these cases are of course also public so that can't be hidden.

The GDPR has some carve-outs.