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I always wondered what recourse these governments have to enforce these fines.
Well, they can seize company property.
But the Irish Government and therefore their Data Protection Entity don’t actually want Data Privacy because they earn quite a lot of money with the actual lack thereof.
So they are not going to do anything about it unless they are forced by European Institutions or other European governments.
In places like Ireland, where it was notoriously used as a tax haven loophole, do many large multinationals using it for that purpose have any real company presence there? Genuine question.
Apple has several thousand employees in Ireland. Ireland wanted to lure foreign investment by offering lower taxes and it worked. Ireland was happy. Apple was happy. Decades later, the EU decided it wasn’t happy.