Irish Data Protection Authority gives € 3.97 billion present to Meta. Authority allegedly unable to assess financial benefit from Meta’s GDPR violations.
Irish Data Protection Authority gives € 3.97 billion present to Meta. Authority allegedly unable to assess financial benefit from Meta’s GDPR violations.
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It would be funny if it wouldn’t be sad reality
” but are also capped at 4% of the global turnover of the past year. In the case of Meta, this would amount to a maximum fine of € 4.36 billion.” the word being **maximum** most of the time the maximum fine wont be fined , the IDPA are allowed to fine what they deem appropriate ,
“Max Schrems: “By not even checking publicly available information, the DPC gifted € 3.97 billion to Meta. It took us an hour and a spreadsheet to make the calculation. I am sure the Irish taxpayers would not mind having that extra cash, if a DPC employee would have just opened a search engine and done some research.””
its not that simple
The DPC is in thrall. Same old story with Irish regulators – unqualified and underperforming but by design.
Crime pays
What’s the buzz with the Apple money, when is that been given back to them. Is it a case of say nothing, hand it over silently. This government are an utter shower of wankers.