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Comment · 23 hours ago
The study covers the most recent documented data protection decisions from ten European authorities, up to 200 per country: 1,042 decisions, €833m in known fines, divided by each country's population.

Some core findings :

- Fines France: €9.58 per resident. Spain: €0.35. Greece €3.61, Germany €0.61. A 27x gap between top and bottom. - Five French decisions carry 89% of the French total. Google (€325m) and Shein (€150m) alone are 72%. The other 195 French decisions add up to €70m, median €11,000. - Two decisions against US Big Tech (Google, Amazon France Logistique) are 0.2% of the decisions and 41% of the money. Google's single fine is almost twice the known fines of the nine other countries combined. - The typical fine is small: median €7,200, and 529 of 965 known amounts are under €10,000. The 11 decisions at €10m or more carry 84% of all the money. - Cookie rules appear in 39 decisions but carry 65% of all the money.

What most fines are about (580 decisions with classified grounds): insufficient security (163), no valid legal basis (146), poor information to individuals (115), not cooperating with the authority (112), excessive collection or monitoring (91). Cookie rules appear in only 39 decisions but carry 65% of all the money.

Comment · 12 days ago
As usual no?
Comment · 15 days ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Few tools are as practical as google analytics for example, which requires cookies
Comment · 2 years ago
it's insane !
Comment · 2 years ago
Analysis of the economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe, including country-specific estimates and legal insights into the outdated EU Directive 2002/58.
Comment · 3 years ago
You are very right. There’s a reason GDPR was adopted and that is to prevent harm to data subjects, or misuses of their data. At a deeper level it actually benefits everyone - including companies themeselves because it allows them to anticipate and eleminate problems before they happen. A good example is openai’s data breach. Had they implemented GDPR security precautions it would likely never have happened. They end up reacting by putting security measures in place, which is what gdpr requested in the first place… You end up implementing gdpr anyway…
Comment · 3 years ago
I wouldn’t say that. GDPR has the power to make LLMs much safer as it can reduce any risk of harm to data subjects. And that’s a very intended consequence !
Comment · 3 years ago
A lot of prompts for finding good business ideas and validating the idea after.
Comment · 3 years ago
It’s a very interesting idea, i haven’t tested the app, maybe integration with vscode ?
Comment · 3 years ago
Unfortunately bagages losses are regulated - in europe - so compensation amounts are already limited (few 100, at best it compensate your suitcase). You need to take insurance and make a video before you pack as proof if you want a solution. Other than this you should assume all the time you luggage is lost.

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