> In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations.
This is not, however, the first time that the EU courts have ruled that the EC has failed to comply with its own regulations. It happens frequently.
When the EC hands out its first fines for violations of the DMA (almost certainly to Apple), you can expect that it will be big in the news and widely celebrated here on HN. But you can also expect that it will be appealed to the courts and that years later the fine will be annulled, with the EU court ruling that the EC failed to conduct a thorough investigation and failed to consider relevant circumstances, etc. The news of this will not be big in the news; it will be posted on HN and get 1 or 2 comments, never reaching the front page.
Is this weird? The EU is an organisation like any other, it can make mistakes. It just so happens to be a regulating organisation and have also written the rule it broke.
I’m happy that a government is holding itself accountable, but I seriously doubt the fine will go through - and even if it does all it does is cost the taxpayer more money due to either incompetence or just malicious intent.
The European mind can’t comprehend that most Americans think EU regulations are oppressive and unnecessary. The EU can’t comply with their own regulations isn’t a good indicator. Neither is the fact that the EU still displays cookie banners on their own website, despite that being everyone’s favorite jab at American companies.
perhaps this is meant as a joke (can't see a /s anywhere) but as far as I understand the EU, the EU (as opposed to the EU court) is a legislative organ that has no power to emit fines.
the EU Court would need to fine itself, basically.
>The court determined that the Commission transferred the citizen's personal data to the United States without proper safeguards and ordered it to pay him 400 euros ($412) in damages.
400 Euros in damages, wow, how will they ever financially recover from this?
> The individual had used the "Sign in with Facebook" option on the EU login webpage to register for a conference. The court, which hears actions taken against EU institutions, found that this transfer of the user's IP address to Meta Platforms in the U.S. violated EU data protection rules.
Which means he already had a Facebook account, so this is only about his IP being given to Meta one time. 400€ per case for this violation seems pretty reasonable.
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This is not, however, the first time that the EU courts have ruled that the EC has failed to comply with its own regulations. It happens frequently.
When the EC hands out its first fines for violations of the DMA (almost certainly to Apple), you can expect that it will be big in the news and widely celebrated here on HN. But you can also expect that it will be appealed to the courts and that years later the fine will be annulled, with the EU court ruling that the EC failed to conduct a thorough investigation and failed to consider relevant circumstances, etc. The news of this will not be big in the news; it will be posted on HN and get 1 or 2 comments, never reaching the front page.
The European mind can’t comprehend that most Americans think EU regulations are oppressive and unnecessary. The EU can’t comply with their own regulations isn’t a good indicator. Neither is the fact that the EU still displays cookie banners on their own website, despite that being everyone’s favorite jab at American companies.
the EU Court would need to fine itself, basically.
400 Euros in damages, wow, how will they ever financially recover from this?
Which means he already had a Facebook account, so this is only about his IP being given to Meta one time. 400€ per case for this violation seems pretty reasonable.
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