“Ridiculously low ceilings on administrative fines hindered the effectiveness of EU data protection law for over twenty years. US tech giants may have seen these fines as a cost of doing business. Now, over two years after the commencement of the European Union’s widely heralded General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the anticipated billion-euro sanctions of EU Data Protection Authorities, or ‘DPAs’, which were to have changed the paradigm, have yet to be issued …” (more)
[W Gregory Voss and Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas, Oxford Business Law Blog, 29 October]
First posted 2020-10-29 11:58:17
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