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Wow. Here's an crazy one: Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany. "The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offen…
Wow. Here's an crazy one: Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany. "The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offen…
The linked article suggests that the guy was sending out angry political rants and criminal accusations to thousands of people a day, which adds a further twist.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's insane, the fact that you can't just go around recording people and cars?
On public streets, yeah, that's kind of insane. It's pretty common for people to have a dashcam running with a buffer so if you're involved in a not at fault accident or someone vandalizes your car, or such things, you have documentation.
Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising, but what this site makes clear to me is that GDPR enforcement is more lax on major companies than many people expected, and more severe on private individuals. For all the breathless reporting of how GDPR would ruin companies financially by levying fines on worldwide revenue, there is exactly one fine listed that exceeds 400k EUR. Granted, it's 50MM EUR to Google, but that's stil…
Some of us argued that no, this is not the apocalypse, the law says that fines will be proportionate, and the various national agencies will work with you to ensure you are compliant. And unless you willfully do the kind of shady shit the law is meant to protect against, you're fine.
Seems we were right. This list looks pretty sane to me, with one exception.
250k€ for using the microphones of all users of an app to spy and determine if they were in a pub that showed football matches without a license. Fuck yeah.
400k€ for a hospital that had effectively unrestricted access to all patient files for all staff. Yes. What would the HIPAA-equivalent fine be?
1400€ for a police officer abusing systems doing lookups for personal gain. Yes.
170k€ for a school district allowing public access to personal data of all minor-aged students. Yes, yes, yes.
The one exception is the fine on Google in France. This is purely a political bullshit game over control and loss of control.
Wow. Here's an crazy one: Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany. "The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offen…
The fact that someone was fined for using a dashcam is beyond absurd.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.
The same link mentions issuing a GDPR reprimand against a person for using a security camera inside their own home .
Wow. Here's an crazy one: Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany. "The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offen…
I personally think ~$15 per leaked email is a reasonable fine. I bet this guy and everyone else who reads this article won't accidentally leak emails again, and that's great.