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I'll eat my shoe if a regulator ever gets even 2% total global revenue out of any of the top 100 software companies based on this.

In reality a bunch of small shops are going to go bankrupt because they don't have a "GDPR implementation" position filled and they didn't do some report properly.



The EU just fined Google €2.42 billion in an antitrust settlement for manipulating search results.

Go get the salt.


Yes, the EU regularly kicks the asses of companies to help consumers in Europe. I'm sure we won't get the same protection on pesticides, pharmaceuticals/medicine, GM, white goods, monopolistic practices like this, roaming charges, etc. etc. once the UK leaves the EU.


Indeed. The conservatives are already drooling over all the consumer/citizen-hostile things they'll be able to do once the UK is out.


How come the EU doesn't care about "pesticides, pharmaceuticals/medicine, GM" ?


I think the original comment needs to be interpreted as 'EU does care, UK post-EU less likely to'


Completely different scenario - But even if it was similar they are fighting it hard [1] so I doubt they will end up paying anything close to that.

[1]http://fortune.com/2017/07/10/google-eu-fine-lawyers/


EU institutions are not as toothless or easily bribed as national ones, so I'm sure there will be big clashes in near future.




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