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European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook
An anonymous reader writes: European privacy regulators from as number of countries has made a coordinated action against Facebook for violating data protection laws. The French CNIL has sanctioned Facebook with a 150,000 EUR fine, and the regulator from Netherlands is considering a similar action. Regulators are concerned with new privacy policies of Facebook, lack of transparency, cookie handling and tracking Facebook users on third-party sites -- all without user knowledge or control. Such coordinated move is unprecedented in the history of European data protection regulators.
There is an individual called Gina Miller who took the Government to court over Brexit eventually forcing a commons vote, which voted strongly in favour thus making her whole campaign pointless. She stated it was always about the common vote but that's agreed to be complete bollocks, it was about stopping Brexit in it's tracks and bugger the Referendum result.
She is now crowd-funding to raise money to support MP's in their election campaigns who are anti-Brexit [and sailing close to the wind on Election Funding laws but not breaking them].
There is a lot of conjecture on who funded her legal campaign. Barristers are extremely expensive to engage in the UK and the major "Magic Circle" law firms are not exactly paragons of pro-bono.
The conjecture is on George Soros who may well have a track record of funding various disruptive campaigns.
Anyway, with Brexit some of the major players may decide that the European laws and regulators are getting as bit too stringent and then move their offices to London where they can stick two fingers up at the EU regulators.