I had to update the pic; forgot the biggest culprit -Microsoft. They got slapped with a fine of $731 million. I try not to think about this company at all but I had to fix it. The meme gods had to be appeased.
Also, I remember that Nextflix only bent the knee by agreeing to 30% of their content being local, but really tempted to add 'em.
Hopefully the Next Flex will be Netflix - for the meme-ability. Elon won’t do it, he would have already done. He is just exercising free speech, nothing more. If he does get in the ring, then I’ll join X 😬 & pay his subscription for a year. 👀
Add end to end encryption to the mix. They’ve been doing so well until they messed with that.
They haven’t messed with it yet. The EU’s a democracy and we can still influence its course.
Thing about that one is that the whole scanning thing will extremely likely get overturned by the courts and thus this whole thing would collapse. If they ever get a majority at all.
Let’s hope so
Also EU: Strip all of your clothes, just in case you are hiding CSAM in them pockets.
US gets more consumer protections against predatory practices from EU authorities than US ones at this point…
What’s up with Marriott?
Marriott Hit With £18.4 Million GDPR Fine Over Massive 2018 Data Breach.
Source:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2020/10/30/marriott-hit-with-184-million-gdpr-fine-over-massive-2018-data-breach/I didn’t even add all the companies, running out of floor space lol. I only added those with multi-million euro fines. Many omitted for settling unspecified amounts.
why is british airways there
For being in a “cargo cartel”. source SkyNews: British Airways is among 11 airlines that have been fined a total of €776m (£674m)
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