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This exactly, it's very much happening even if you're not reading it in the news every time.


If you search for Google, you will find one 50M fine. What is the 4% of Google revenue's again? 50M is filed under cost of doing business or the corruption budget if you are not that generous.


So you mean the small companies won't get fines of 10Mi dollars as everyone is so quick to claim here?


That is not what I said. I only asserted that major and repeat offenders do not get the book thrown at them.


Your info seems a bit out of date:

> SWEDEN

> 2020-03-11

> 7,000,000

> Google LLC

> Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR, Art. 17 GDPR


What specific violation do you have in mind? Google has been fined $5B for various non-GDPR violations.


Have they paid any of it? FCC has fined robodialers in the hundreds of millions but only managed to collect a fraction of a percent.


The difference being jurisdiction. Google operates within the EU. Most robodialers targeting the US are not in the US.




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