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How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by GrappleHat@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do we have specific names of the people making these great decisions?

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago

A lot of them are affiliated with the government of Ireland, which acts as a tax and legislatory haven for most of these companies in the EU. Only recently have member state data protection authorities started to bring cases forward, and IIRC Meta tried to argue itself out of a fine issued in Norway by saying that it needs to be fined in Ireland.