Critics question the willingness of the Irish Data Protection Commission, EU's lead GDPR enforcer, to crack down on tech firms that dominate Ireland's economy
http://www.politico.eu/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : As folks gawk-or-not at Facebook's reserve budget for its looming FTC fine for Cambridge Analytica, it's worth noting that Facebook's GPDR regulator for the EU has also been asleep at the wheel, failing to enforce a 2011 warning about friend data leakage. http://www.politico.com/... Epsu / @epsunions : Excellent work journalist @NicholasVinocur #GDPR circumvented in Ireland. 1928 complaints. zero enforcement. We are NOT learning lessons from tax avoidance of companies, government complicity and lack of resources for enforcement. People pay the price. http://www.politico.eu/... http://twitter.com/... Revolution / @revolution_irl : Not only does Ireland facilitate industrial tax dodging by tech giants, it now facilitates dubious data protection practices. @paddycosgrave http://www.politico.eu/... Nicholas Vinocur / @nicholasvinocur : THREAD: Shortly after Europe imposed the GDPR, we decided to examine a pretty simple question: How is this going to work? And is it really going be a serious problem for big data-centric companies like Facebook? 1/ Rowland Manthorpe / @rowlsmanthorpe : What happens when you give responsibility for the world's tech regulation to a country where the tech industry makes up 10% of GDP? According to this report, a worryingly cosy relationship #GDPR http://www.politico.eu/...