Europe doesn’t enforce the law. Cookie banners are similarly pointless.

robin_reala 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

€6.3B cumulative fines says that they’re enforcing the law to at least some extent: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/statistics

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CalRobert 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Yet the pointless banners and illegal tracking remains. They do, sometimes, but rarely. And having Ireland's utterly toothless DPC handling so many big tech companies makes it even worse.

	▲	account42 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, letting companies go regulatory agency shopping should not have been allowed. Legal disputes between companies and the customers need to be decided where the customers are.

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bobim 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are useful as a deterrence system, can't decline in one click? I'm out thanks.