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GDPR: Don't Panic

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Re: GDPR: Don't Panic

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I'm an attorney who's spent the last year or so working on GDPR compliance for a US SaaS provider some of whose clients have EU employees. My understanding is that it's true that EU enforcement is more in the spirit of "how can we get you compliant?" before doling out fines (vs. the US where it can be more "let's make an example of this company by hitting them with a big fine" and scaring others into compliance). I a…

From the PDF you linked to: "This e-mail was sent to those individuals on the database where no “opt in” or “opt out” information was held" Sounds like they were basically on a fishing expedition - if the individuals hadn't explicitly opted in, Honda shouldn't be sending them emails.

Agreed that the fine for a company like Honda appears very reasonable. My only point is that their behavior was more sloppy than malicious or 'terrible' - and sloppy in a way that many, many companies are sloppy. And this size fine for a small company would be very painful - maybe fatal.
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