[sjwhevvvvvsj]

Ahh yes, another premature declaration of success by the EU, who haven’t properly enforced ePrivacy, GDPR, or a host of other regulations.

The EU is all talk and posturing, you can write any law you want but the tech companies already figured out compliance is optional.

[sofixa]

Apple have already started using USB-C in iPhones, have already announced how they'll allow apps to be installed on iPhones without their App Store. Google have stopped shoving Google Maps on Search results.

Many companies, including Google, Facebook and similar, have changed how they do things because of the GDPR, and have been fined for not complying.

[sjwhevvvvvsj]

The FTCs fine on Facebook from a few years ago exceeds the combined value of all GDPR fines levied to date.

The Irish government fills its coffers with the largesse of tech companies that are headquartered there specifically to dodge taxes and regulation.

Likewise, while GDPR has some initial changes in privacy after many months of inaction tracking levels started to rebound because everybody figured out nobody was going to enforce it.

[crote]

> The FTCs fine on Facebook from a few years ago exceeds the combined value of all GDPR fines levied to date.

Which is quite ironic, because when the GDPR was introduced just about everyone on HN adamantly insisted that one-person startups would be getting a €20M fine every time they made the slightest mistake.

[bemusedthrow75]

> The FTCs fine on Facebook from a few years ago exceeds the combined value of all GDPR fines levied to date.

This isn't anywhere near as significant a point as you think.

[sjwhevvvvvsj]

The fun thing about hacker news is that for all you know I may be directly involved in these issues and speak from direct first-hand, but highly confidential, knowledge.

Or I’m just some moron, posting opinions with absolutely no basis in fact.

Only I can be sure!

[bemusedthrow75]

And yet either way it still would not, IMO, be as significant a point as you think.

[sjwhevvvvvsj]

Ah, but you are be very wrong.

[bemusedthrow75]

I don't see where I declared success. And I'm not even in the EU.