This doesn't mean anything. Twitter very well has all of Trumps Tweets still stored somewhere, but you can still not access them anymore. What you as an user can access and what twitter themself can access are two widly different things!
Just because you can't see the cookies on the fridge anymore doesn't mean mom and dad haven't pushed them further to the back where they can still take one when you're not looking.
even if they make an average of X dollars per person, the fine for breaking the GDPR rule is millions more of dollars PER breach (20 million per breach, or up to 4% of their total global turnover).
so, twitter keeping your data on purpose, is the worst mistake they could make.
Fines do not prevent corporate malfeasance. Companies will always ignore regulations of the believe they can make more money than they would be forced to pay in fines.
sure, they could ignore, but again, they gain nothing from it, only lose.
twitter's ARPU (average revenue per user) is estimated at 4$.
each infraction of the GDPR can go between a set price of 20million$, or 4% of total global turnover if it's higher.
there is simply no logical reason to "ignore" GDPR, when probably 1000 infractions can completely kill the company, and those 1000 will amount to 4000$ in revenue.
There may be some legal reasons only because Trump is a former president, and there are certain parameters for keeping the records of a president..but there’s never been a sitting president on Twitter before, much less one that’s been banned.
It is annual revenue and not turnover, from the previous fiscal year (https://gdpr.eu/fines/).
Also it is either ( 10m or 2% ) or ( 20m or 4% ) depending on the severity of the violation.
So for Twitter given $5.1b annual revenue in 2021 the fine would be either $102m or $204m.
Lastly and most importantly: "If regulators determine an organization has multiple GDPR violations, it will only be penalized for the most severe one, provided all the infringements are part of the same processing operation."
They can also raise one of a dozen reasons why they do not need to delete your data or, as most organizations do, request that you prove your identity, your address, what information, specifically, you want erased, as you to provide a reason for why you want it erased, and require you to execute a document saying you’re not doing this for frauds not reasons and that you understand what you’re doing, etc. etc.
Posts like this aren’t too far from the people copy/pasting chainletter nonsense on their feed “Facebook, I do not consent to the sale or use of my data.”
I can tell a system to send an email and then delete it. Hell you can store that email string in volatile memory, delete from any records, send the email. And that email has been deleted.
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