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0 pointsgeewee4y ago0 comments

You'd imagine(hope?) they might get more fines if they don't stop.

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"In addition to the fines, the restricted committee ordered the companies to provide Internet users located in France with a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent, within three months. If they fail to do so, the companies will have to pay a penalty of 100,000 euros per day of delay."

PeterisP4y ago

So, 36.5 million per year of delay - perhaps that's affordable on their scale.

Youden4y ago

If they continue to refuse, the fines are unlikely to stop there.

MauranKilom4y ago

Well, it's ~356 developers they could have paid for that year instead. If only France fines them that might be workable, but there are a lot of other countries in the EU...

the_french4y ago

if I recall correctly, the fine scales up as time goes on up some (2?) percentage of company revenue. Like most people I would be happier seeing them get a several billion dollar fine right off the bat but so long as it eventually becomes unbearable that's good enough for me.

avianlyric4y ago

GDPR allows fines up 4% of global annual turnover. So $3B for Facebook if the regulator wanted to.

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