One could argue that the intention of the law is to make it possible to collect revenue from non-EU companies. Since the EU doesn't have any sizable internet companies. Not counting Prosus group as they are a holding company, Spotify is the biggest at 100mm. EU doesn't care about small / midsized companies because they don't have enough income to bother with. "The purpose of a system is what it does".
> EU doesn't care about small / midsized companies because they don't have enough income to bother with.
I am so very tempted to quote you sarcastically using mixed upper lower case text for how incredible wrong you are. Yes, there is less enforcement than I want of GDPR, but any insinuation that they do not bother is a lie.
None. EU has no bank account. Fines are levied by member countries and their equivalent of the IRS and police collects them. Collecting these fines are a requirement to be a voting member of the EC, so any member state that fails to collect will be stripped of their right to vote on EU regulations.
point conceded, they do enforce gdpr on smaller companies
thanks for the enforcement tracker link
i scraped that page to get the raw data and added it up by company.
i wanted to see how much the main us tech companies paid vs everyone else
these aren't audited but
total €6,848,216,522
us tech €4,527,961,028
so 66% from just a few companies from outside europe
