The Irish data official who serves as one of the globe’s most consequential privacy regulators rejected the idea that her office is a roadblock to efforts to reform Silicon Valley giants like Facebook
The Irish data official who serves as one of the globe’s most consequential privacy regulators rejects the idea that her office is a roadblock to efforts to reform Silicon Valley giants like Facebook. But she acknowledged the challenges of reining in a U.S. tech industry that has ignited a worldwide data revolution with few privacy protections baked in.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Dixon was in Washington, D.C. — the second time in four weeks, she said — to keynote a major privacy conference, but also to accept the Senate Commerce Committee’s invitation to testify at its hearing examining how the U.S. might go about crafting its own comprehensive privacy rules.
Added Dixon, “At one point there was a new breach being notified to us under the GDPR every fortnight, and so we opened a consolidated investigation to look at, 'How could it be that one company is repeatedly suffering from these breaches?'”The GDPR went into effect in the European Union on May 25, 2018, and Dixon argued that it takes time for the investigations it triggered to reach conclusions.
Under the GDPR, companies like Facebook face penalties of up to 4 percent of annual worldwide revenue — a punishment that Dixon's office can levy more than once.settlement, the GDPR is going to be with us probably for another 20 years,” said Dixon. “And in each of the investigations, fines can be applied in each separate case.”
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