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		laurentl on Jan 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros agai... It’s also the first fine to be handed out after the GDPR came into effect (the other fines on the page are for infractions discovered before May 2017). Which is one of the reasons the GDPR was passed: previous laws had much less teeth when it came to fines.

zaarn on Jan 22, 2019 [–]

Not the first; a german chat app was hit by a minor fine because they stored passwords in cleartext in 2018.

laurentl on Jan 22, 2019 | [–]

Sorry, I meant "the first by CNIL" (or even more specifically, the first in the list of previous fines that was a couple of posts above)

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