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🇧🇪Belgium: “public bodies are exempt from GDPR fines” (web.archive.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/gdpr@sopuli.xyz
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Gem from the article:

Under Article 221, §2 of the Belgian Data Protection Act of 30 July 2018, public bodies are exempt from GDPR fines in Belgium.

So Belgian public services have no incentive to comply with the GDPR.

Yikes. The money taken by fines does not disappear. It would normally move from one public pot to another public pot.

(update) less confusing source: https://eurocloud.org/news/article/no-gdpr-fines-for-public-sector-bodies-at-all-no-discrimination-and-no-problem/

It’s also interesting to see the comment on this case.

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

And once again the USA are directly involved. Still, what the fuck, Belgium.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Just to clarify, the article I linked is not related to Belgium’s policy to exempt public services from GDPR fines. That FATCA article just happens to be where I read about the exemption. Sorry for the confusion. I probably should have linked this article instead.

    But indeed FATCA is a shitshow on its own. Shame on every country that agreed to it.

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