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1. _fat_s+ia[view] [source] 2024-12-16 18:19:12
>>buro9+(OP)
It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech".

I feel like the whole time this was being argued and passed, everyone in power just considered the internet to be the major social media sites and never considered that a single person or smaller group will run a site.

IMO I think that you're going to get two groups of poeple emerge from this. One group will just shut down their sites to avoid running a fowl of the rules and the other group will go the "go fuck yourself" route and continue to host anonymously.

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2. graeme+1l[view] [source] 2024-12-16 19:22:40
>>_fat_s+ia
> It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech".

Very little legislation does.

Two things my clients have dealt with: VATMOSS and GDPR. The former was fixed with a much higher ceiling for compliance but not before causing a lot of costs and lost revenue to small businesses. GDPR treats a small businesses and non profits that just keep simple lists for people (customers, donors, members, parishioners, etc.) has to put effort into complying even thought they have a relatively small number of people's data and do not use it outside their organisation. The rules are the same as for a huge social network that buys and sells information about hundreds of millions of people.

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3. jimnot+UJ[view] [source] 2024-12-16 21:54:36
>>graeme+1l
Do you know a small business that has got into trouble with GDPR?
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4. dangro+XM[view] [source] 2024-12-16 22:16:34
>>jimnot+UJ
You can filter this list to see 200+ GDPR fines assigned to sole proprietors, the smallest of small businesses, individuals that haven't even registered a separate entity for their business:

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

They're only cataloging the (2500+) publicly known ones, most of which have a link to a news article. As an example: some guy in Croatia emailed a couple websites he thought might be interested in his marketing services, and provided a working opt-out link in his cold emails. One of them reported the email to the Italian Data Protection Authority who then put him through an international investigation and fined him 5000 euro.

"Assuming here that the reasons expressed in the aforementioned document have been fully recalled, [individual] was charged with violating articles 5, par. 1, letter a), 6, par. 1, letter a) of the Regulation and art. 130 of the Code, since the sending of promotional communications via e-mail was found to have been carried out without the consent of the interested parties. Therefore, it is believed that - based on the set of elements indicated above - the administrative sanction of payment of a sum of €5,000.00 (five thousand) equal to 0.025% of the maximum statutory sanction of €20 million should be applied."

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5. camero+CY[view] [source] 2024-12-16 23:45:27
>>dangro+XM
It's worth noting that each country has a different approach to GDPR enforcement (which arguably defeats the point of it but that's another discussion).

The UK tends to be a lot more (IMO) reasonable in its approach than some other European countries. Italy tends to be one of the strictest, and likes to hand out fines, even to private individuals for things like having a doorbell camera. The UK has only fined one person on that basis, and it was more of a harassment case rather than just simply that they had a camera.

ICO and Ofcom aren't generally in the business of dishing out fines unless it's quite obviously warranted.

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