Except it didn’t. My daughter in the US created an account and it didn’t require any family pairing or verification that the adult paired with her was her parent
Consider that GDPR has been in effect since 2016, with a grace period until 2018 before the EU started to hand out fines.
It's been 7 years that every company operating in the EU knows about these rules, 3 years ago it was already 4 years into effect. There's no excuse, they broke the law, pay the fine.
It's pretty normal for these things to take a while; most fines (and for that matter most prosecutions) would related to historic offences, not ongoing ones.
Obviously. That doesn't mean its good to drive our companies into the dirt, just because they're not people. People depend on them. People work for these companies. Their significance is perhaps far greater than actually ruining just the lives of one person.
Our companies? TikTok is Chinese... That being said, I do not consider jobs or companies benefits a valid argument when it comes to anti trust and regulations.
But you sure know capitalism, and corporations, abuse the goodwill of hoverents, local and national, and communities. You just want to be ultra edgy for some reason.
If it is a single McD employee, fine said restaurant (which is already the case, but you onow that don't you?). If it is a general issue with a franchise chain (McD is running a franchise, so the company to go bankrupt is most likely a franchise in your example), fine them. And yes, that can lead to bankruptcy, as happened a couple of years ago with a Burger King franchise chain in Munich.
If McD is knowlingly selling carcinogenic burgers world wide and reguses to stop, sure, bankcrupt McD.
Data privacy violations are certainly minor. Until we get that through, our companies are going to suffer. We have far, far, far greater problems in the world than privacy issues of usually meaningless data.
