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by CalRobert 2 days ago
Europe doesn’t enforce the law. Cookie banners are similarly pointless.
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€6.3B cumulative fines says that they’re enforcing the law to at least some extent: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/statistics
Yet the pointless banners and illegal tracking remains. They do, sometimes, but rarely. And having Ireland's utterly toothless DPC handling so many big tech companies makes it even worse.
Yes, letting companies go regulatory agency shopping should not have been allowed. Legal disputes between companies and the customers need to be decided where the customers are.
They are useful as a deterrence system, can't decline in one click? I'm out thanks.