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The law says that the fines should be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive". That gives companies ample room to challenge a fine that is way out of proportion to the damages caused to their users.

>>lyscho+(OP)
You say this as though "challenging a fine" were trivial.

After countless months spent in a courtroom and tens of thousands of Euros in legal fees, even if you win, you lose.

>>omgint+V6
If you are fined 10k-100k you have the typical problem of whether it is worth fighting..

But you are supporting the argument that you could be illegally (according to article 83) fined 4 million euros as a first offence because a regulator wants to be disproportionate and set an example with your small company and then have costs of 10-100k to throw out an obvious case, but it wouldn't be worth it?

>>yayana+rb
It's worth it but it bankrupts you.

No customers, no investors, and all your cash gone before your appeal is heard.

Block all EU traffic. Just cut the transatlantic cables.

>>ghein+Zf
I don't think there's a need to cut the transatlantic cables, but if a company doesn't want to take proper care of user data then it's perfectly reasonable that they stay away from that market and let other companies have that business.

>>ghein+Zf
Maybe you should list all of the possible cases that could be initiated against you as a business owner in the US and which ones you can and can't guard against before you worry about that cable.