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By *oi_Lucy OP   Couple
over a year ago

Barbados

So the papers will be reporting tomorrow on the interim results of the ICOs investigation on Facebook’s use of personal data in policitcal campaigns. It is expected they will be announcing a £500,000 fine for facebook’s use of data in the run up to the referendum.

Considering £500,000 represents about 20 minutes of our EU membership fee (just to put it in context) and is about 0.001% of Facebook’s annual turnover...

Aren’t you glad we’ve brought GDPR in so that in future at least abuses of personal data like this can get meaningful fines?

-Matt

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

That is a pathetic fine,we allways do this with large companies.

In this country the large companies especially energy and telecom companies get away with murder they laugh all the way to the bank.

It is one of the reasons that these companies like this country

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By *oi_Lucy OP   Couple
over a year ago

Barbados


"That is a pathetic fine,we allways do this with large companies.

In this country the large companies especially energy and telecom companies get away with murder they laugh all the way to the bank.

It is one of the reasons that these companies like this country"

As I stated, this is one of the reasons why I am very glad the GDPR h as come into effect. Under the GDPR they could have been fined €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.

-Matt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"That is a pathetic fine,we allways do this with large companies.

In this country the large companies especially energy and telecom companies get away with murder they laugh all the way to the bank.

It is one of the reasons that these companies like this country

As I stated, this is one of the reasons why I am very glad the GDPR h as come into effect. Under the GDPR they could have been fined €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.

-Matt"

So why is the full extent of the law not being used against Facebook. It is rapidly evolving into an all pervading, invasive, evil empire. Darth Zuckerberg at the helm!

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By *oi_Lucy OP   Couple
over a year ago

Barbados


"That is a pathetic fine,we allways do this with large companies.

In this country the large companies especially energy and telecom companies get away with murder they laugh all the way to the bank.

It is one of the reasons that these companies like this country

As I stated, this is one of the reasons why I am very glad the GDPR h as come into effect. Under the GDPR they could have been fined €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.

-Matt

So why is the full extent of the law not being used against Facebook. It is rapidly evolving into an all pervading, invasive, evil empire. Darth Zuckerberg at the helm!"

Because at the time of the offence the law was not as strong as it is now. GDPR only came about due to it being an EU directive. If you remember May has been going the opposite direction with her ‘Snoopers Charter’ trying to collect more data on citizen.

But hey, once we are out of the EU we won’t have to worry about pesky protections like this and we can let private companies do whatever they want with our personal information!....

...only we won’t, because just like every other regulation and standard the U.K. is going to have to keep parity with the EU in order to do business with it.

-Matt

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East


"

Considering £500,000 represents about 20 minutes of our EU membership fee (just to put it in context) and is about 0.001% of Facebook’s annual turnover...

Aren’t you glad we’ve brought GDPR in so that in future at least abuses of personal data like this can get meaningful fines?

-Matt"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"That is a pathetic fine,we allways do this with large companies.

In this country the large companies especially energy and telecom companies get away with murder they laugh all the way to the bank.

It is one of the reasons that these companies like this country

As I stated, this is one of the reasons why I am very glad the GDPR h as come into effect. Under the GDPR they could have been fined €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.

-Matt

So why is the full extent of the law not being used against Facebook. It is rapidly evolving into an all pervading, invasive, evil empire. Darth Zuckerberg at the helm!

Because at the time of the offence the law was not as strong as it is now. GDPR only came about due to it being an EU directive. If you remember May has been going the opposite direction with her ‘Snoopers Charter’ trying to collect more data on citizen.

But hey, once we are out of the EU we won’t have to worry about pesky protections like this and we can let private companies do whatever they want with our personal information!....

...only we won’t, because just like every other regulation and standard the U.K. is going to have to keep parity with the EU in order to do business with it.

-Matt"

Isn’t GDPR an exception as it covers Eu nationals in non EU countries. So we could have to treat their data better than ours ?

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