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by sime2009 927 days ago
https://gdpr.eu/fines/

For Facebook is would be either 2% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, or 4% of said revenue.

A bit bigger than a rounding error.

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Fair, but for those 6 billion people that don't live in the EU....
None of this has ever been applied, as proven by Facebook still being in business despite blatantly breaching the GDPR since 2018.

Even when they got close to actually getting a deterring fine, the corrupt Irish DPA bailed them out: https://noyb.eu/en/irish-data-protection-authority-gives-eu-...