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gf000yesterday at 10:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can get some really hefty fines for not playing by the rules. It's taken extremely seriously in basically every aspect of life in Europe. It's not enforced hard enough against US company empires like meta and the like unfortunately, but it absolutely works.


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Nextgridyesterday at 10:50 PM

Can != will.

> It's taken extremely seriously in basically every aspect of life in Europe

Yeah, like every single cookie banner out there not actually being compliant. A regulation can't be considered to be meaningfully enforced when every single storefront openly breaches it in total impunity for years.

reedciccioyesterday at 10:59 PM

Yeah... Ask Schrems about the hefty fines and all that pretty things bright to Europeans by the GDPR. Come on! The GDPR is at best a pretty face to a rotten nothing-burger.

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