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GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the
by mtkd 9y ago
GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the new information request system has no fee.
It also has potential to spawn new greasy organisations that facilitate mass requests for personal info on your behalf which could lead to some new PPI-style compensation claim situations.
It's a good step for custody of identity information but I'm not sure impact has been completely thought through.
- pointytrees 9y agoLawyer for the U.S. business I work at said that we can look at it more in the coming year since he suspects it won't come to life in its current form for the exact points you make. Guess we will see. I'm all for individual rights and privacy, but there should also be options that are reasonably achieved by all parties.
- lovich 9y agoI suppose that would depend on your view point. I am of the view that much of this data collection is something companies have no right to, especially when it's done to people who have not agreed to it ala Facebook's shadow profiles. From that viewpoint I say tough shit if you get swamped by these requests. If we found that a group of companies had made a business model of dumping garbage in public areas through a legal loophole, Id hope that people wouldn't be saying that we have to figure out some solution that's reasonable for all parties when the government goes to stop that
- samat 9y agoI think the cost of handling personal data should be so high that current shady practices would make no economical sense. That would be ideal solution for all this mass personal data collection and mishandling.
- legulere 9y agoWe already have something like this in Germany and no such thing has happened.
- Veratyr 9y ago> GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests Another way of looking at it is that it adds significant incentives for organizations to make user data more easily accessible to users. There's no reason information requests _have_ to be expensive operations.
- e_proxus 9y agoOr an incentive not to collect the data at all in the first place.
- CapacitorSet 9y ago>GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the new information request system has no fee. @vecna (https://github.com/vecna https://github.com/vecna, former Hacking Team employee turned privacy activist) is working towards that, and I think he wouldn't mind contributions.