If you're referring to GDPR, companies routinely evade such protections using "informed consent" / "legitimate interests" loopholes. The big ones get caught once in a while, get a slap on the wrist and continue to do whatever they were doing before, albeit with more safeguards.

Not really: https://noyb.eu/en/fines-resulting-noyb-litigation

Sure 50 M or even 1 B might be peanuts for faang but still there is real progress.

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