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> Do list the names of famous bureaucrats that got famous because they fined rich companies.

Thierry Breton is another name that comes to mind.

The guy who was a CEO of a top 10 digital services (?) company worldwide, Atos, and before that of the biggest French telecom (France Telecom/Orange). He was named 3 times in the top 100 CEOs by Harvard Business Review. He was a minister of economics, finances and industry for 2 years. Also has a few sci-fi books.

And for you, he became popular when he was named European Commissioner? Which company did he fine to become famous with his new position?

The dude who can't submit a post to Twitter/bsky without including a glamor shot of himself?

Never heard of her.

The only actual example I can think of is Schrems and he didn't fine anyone, he merely dismantled the shoddily constructed EU-US privacy law circumventions (Privacy Shield etc). And I had to look up his first name (Max) because I only knew his name from the court cases (notably Schrems II).

Heh, great illustration of how hollow the "politician acting for fame" accusation is: the only name you could think of is of an EFF-like activist, he's not a politician at all :D

Turns out I had him down as a "politician" because I conflated him with the Greens politician who was doing elaborate flow charts on Brexit on social media. Incidentally I also forgot his name too.

I saw he's only listed as a "lawyer" (not a political position or party membership) when looking up his full name but given that I know literally nothing else about him (the face doesn't even feel familiar) I left it at that.

Also, he's not a bureaucrat or politician.

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