alt Hacker NewsFunny whenever people complain about the GDPR here they're thinking they would be slapped with a €20Mi fine and that EU team 6 is going to parachute in their office and arrest everyone
So they're saying this is not the case?
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alibarber • today at 3:19 PM
Well, not for public bodies at least: “ Administrative fines cannot be imposed on public organisations, such as the government or state-owned companies, municipalities and parishes” [1]
But luckily this sort of thing never happens in the public sector. Except for when it does: https://yle.fi/a/74-20094950
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jruohonen • today at 1:09 PM
> So they're saying this is not the case?
Yes it was. The company was fined 20M EUR on standard GDPR-basis and went bankrupt (but unlikely due to the fine alone). Please re-read the above discussion.
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The law is written such that they could do all that to a small family business that forgot to delete their Apache logs, which isn't good and leaves room for abuse even if they pinkie swear it's only meant for big violations.