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1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 04:50:17 EDT Verius
   @maiyannah I doubt indeed that they are going to deal out many fines at this point, most likely privacy authorities will contact companies and point out the law (this doesn't require investigations that privacy authorities typically don't really have the manpower for). However there are a few companies that are likely to feel the full force of the law: Facebook and Google. From an enforcement perspective it makes most sense to fine those companies that are a) trying to make a run around the law, b) are the biggest privacy invaders, c) are well known and d) are really impopular. Note that Facebook is already receiving more attention because of a data breach exposing access tokens for 50M accounts.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 10:05:53 EDT Annah

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      @verius I'm sceptical, honestly, because Google and Facebook both have pretty egregious breaches of these regulations on a day-to-day basis and I certainly haven't heard anything about it.  I'd love to be wrong though, someone need to take both of them down a peg.
      1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 10:08:43 EDT Verius

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         @maiyannah The problem is that they have lawyers. So the privacy authorities need to be really thorough in their investigations and it will probably take years for a verdict to be delivered after all the court cases and all. Still, I know at least the Irish data protection agency is working on it: https:// www.dataprotection. ie/docs/EN/03-10-2018-Facebook-Data-Breach-Commencement-of-Investigation/m/1787.htm
         1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 10:17:43 EDT Annah

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            @verius True, though I'm sceptical of the motives involved there, since they were going to open an office in Ireland but decided against it ... and then suddenly Ireland is looking into data breaches.  It's not a good look.
            1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 10:51:44 EDT Verius

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               @maiyannah Apparently Facebook's main European presence is in Ireland so the Irish DPA going after them seems fairly logical.
               1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 10:59:15 EDT Annah

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                  @verius It just seems a little opprotunistic at the best on that government's part, but I guess we're not really going to get a clean go at Google or Facebook with the way the world works.