@ChristianUncut Most salient point: we don’t know where LinkedIn obtained those 18 million email addresses + all the related data. The DPC doesn’t address it. And reality? LinkedIn does not need to tell them. Most likely they just bought them on the market. But the big take-takeaway? ... ➡️
@ChristianUncut ... the breaches “are now trickling down into the companies modifying their practices”. The DPCs just want to settle these things. “Pay a fine. Promise to modify your behavior”. Why? ... ➡️
@ChristianUncut ... the DPCs are out-matched. As I noted in a post earlier thisyear, Facebook has 2,500+ people handling GDPR, Google has 1,800+, MICROSOFT 1,100+, etc. Total DPCS staff across EU handling GDPR? 182 (learned at the recent EU DPO annual meeting. They have no time/staff to dig.
@ChristianUncut And all these “HURRAH! DATA PRIVACY ENFORCEMENT!” babble. Vesager’s big case against Google took eight years to complete. Further, it showed just one part of the large and sprawling antitrust issue. Even after the fine Google was left holding more than $100bn in cash ...
@ChristianUncut Vestager’s fire fighters put out the fire on the first floor ... but only after the blaze had spread to the rest of the building. GDPR “enforcement” will meet a similar fate.
