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Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story) - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The laws aren’t toothless, otherwise everyone would be abusing them,

Have you heard of such small indie developers such as Google, Amazon or Facebook?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The exact same ones who have millions in fines racked up and are paying them? Yes, I have heard of those.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You said it yourself: Millions. Not Billions.

    For these companies, paying such a mundane fine is just the business cost of being able to do whatever they want. The execs figuratively (and perhaps literally too) piss out a fine payment every morning before reading the newspaper company whatsapp account.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    And you think that lemmy devs / admins being hit by thousands of dollars of a fine is going to go the same way facebook goes? That they'll be able to ignore it and say it's a cost of business? The giant corps get fined too. The US companies get fined too (for all the people saying "this EU law, me no care".

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