[miken123]

> Yeah, especially when in the case of the fine for consent about personal ads, the fine was for violations before the law was in place.

Do you have any source for that, or are you just making up things on the spot here? (I can help you, it's the latter)

[zpeti]

Ben Thompson wrote exactly about my point in his newsletter. But thanks for your accusation.

[miken123]

It's great that you have a non-publicly available newsletter as a source, but if you read the DPC item [1] you'll see that it's just about the GDPR. What Ben probably does not understand, is that the fine is not about the TOS change _before_ the GDPR came in effect, but about the fact that data was processed without valid legal basis _after_ the GDPR came in effect as the TOS change and an 'I accept' button was simply not sufficient.

[1]: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/data-protection-...

[jkaplowitz]

Can you provide a link or the full quote of the relevant section, so that we can see what’s going on here? My expectation is that he’s misunderstanding the situation.