Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter all have their European headquarters in Dublin, making Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner the lead EU regulator responsible for holding them to the law.
But the Irish DPC has been repeatedly criticized, both by privacy campaigners and by other EU regulators, for failing to take action.
Is it because they rely on the massive income from Big Tech…
See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/ireland-fails-to-enforce-eu-law-against-big-tech
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Ireland doesn’t “fail”, that’d imply they actually tried.
They did try 2% of the time ;-)
there’s a big culture of back handers. it’s related to ROI’s refusal to collect tax money that is due from companies like Google, which the EU is suing ROI for ATM.
