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Comment by smcin

Yes. The 2018-9 breach and cyberextortion involving Finland's mental-health startup Vastaamo.

- CEO Ville Tapio was convicted criminally under the GDPR.

- The company failed in 2021.

- Finland's NBI tightened criminal code on privacy violations of data subjects, either intentionally or through gross negligence, if they cause damage or significant inconvenience to the data subject.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210873

parent smcin 6 months ago

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