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GDPR allows fines up 4% of global annual turnover. So $3B for Facebook if the regulator wanted to.


This is not a GDPR fine, that (as of now - there's some push to change that in the future) can't be passed by France and would have to go through Ireland's regulating agency (since Ireland is the country chosen by Google) which has been not particularly willing to enforce GDPR against the major multinationals.




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