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Through the huge fines they are subject to if they violate the the law.


The EU fines are typically fairly small. Every time one is given, you can see someone on HN commenting it's spare change for the company. Those fines in practice are set to "pay this symbolic amount and fix things, or the next fine will be huge". I don't think anyone refused to implement the required fixes yet.




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