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That could be a nail in the coffin to end VW, the EU GDPR is quite a sharp weapon.

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The EU won't do much, because this is a car company. Car companies run the EU, basically, especially German ones.

Not surprisingly as the EU grew out of post war coal and steel association

The problem was caused by Cariad, not VW directly. Cariad will be held responsible for, not VW.

CARIAD is a 100%-owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen group.

It’s their bad software bank.

Sure. Good accounting and disaster prevention from VW. The matter of the discussion proves that the decision was correct.

Yep, and this will be the end of CARIAD. Volkswagen has already b decided to bleed them to death with the Rivien joint-venture. I guess they'll shut down the rest of the operation much, much faster now. This is the perfect reason for them to do so and what they have been waiting for.

That's not how the GDPR works. Cariad may be a subcontractor (data processor in GDPR speak) for VW, but the driver does not have a contract with Cariad -- their contract is with VW (the data controller in GDPR speak). The data controller is always jointly liable with the processor for 3rd-party data breaches.

I think even in the EU, VW group is "too big to fail".

Too big to fail and too much of it is state owned, either directly, or through government-owned retirement funds.

The government will investigate itself and find no wrongdoings, let's go after the journalists who committed the ultimate crime: Embarassing Officials.

Oh yea, that big gubmint is the one to blame!

Never mind that it's a for-profit company that does the surveiling, and wrote the faulty IT structure.

Neoliberal religion runs deep...

supervisory board of VW has 20 members, state of Lower Saxony appoints 2 (as a minority shareholder), workforce elects 7 among themselves, and 3 are trade union representatives also elected by the workforce.

no one is denying it's a for profit company, but its governance model doesn't really scream "neoliberalism". assuming you're from the US, (German) enterprises like VW are vastly different from what exists in the US, not just in the terms of their structure but also their influence on Germany and EU.

Way to miss the point. Governments giving semi-private companies blank cheques is the worst possible combination, because nobody's incentivised to care about laws in such constructs.

The EU will play favorites. There will be a slap on the wrist. Some probation. Maybe a CEO or high level C* person will step down in disgrace with only a few hundred million in severance. Then everything will go back to normal.

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