> In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations.<p>This is not, however, the first time that the EU courts have ruled that the EC has failed to comply with its own regulations. It happens frequently.<p>When the EC hands out its first fines for violations of the DMA (almost certainly to Apple), you can expect that it will be big in the news and widely celebrated here on HN. But you can also expect that it will be appealed to the courts and that years later the fine will be annulled, with the EU court ruling that the EC failed to conduct a thorough investigation and failed to consider relevant circumstances, etc. The news of this will <i>not</i> be big in the news; it will be posted on HN and get 1 or 2 comments, never reaching the front page.
Is this weird? The EU is an organisation like any other, it can make mistakes. It just so happens to be a regulating organisation and have also written the rule it broke.
<i>>The court determined that the Commission transferred the citizen's personal data to the United States without proper safeguards and ordered it to pay him 400 euros ($412) in damages.</i><p>400 Euros in damages, wow, how will they ever financially recover from this?
At least they’re consistent? I don’t know seems like folks in the EU would be better off spending time innovating on product and technology. It’s fine to regulate but to make that your only contribution is not fine imo.