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Most of the EU litigation has been against Facebook.

They have spent many millions in EU GDPR projects (such as the ability to download all records, which is in the news cycle right now).

Under the current legislation, they can be sued by each regulator in each country separately (this has happened to them multiple times). Under the GDPR, they will mostly be sued by just the Irish Data Protection Authority (other EU regulators will funnel issues to the Irish DPA first).



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