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GPDR doesn't impose rules on companies under EU jurisdiction. It tries to impose rules on all companies everywhere. The blog post is written by an American. Th
by peoplewindow 9y ago
GPDR doesn't impose rules on companies under EU jurisdiction. It tries to impose rules on all companies everywhere. The blog post is written by an American.
The rest of your argument reduces to "all regulation is good" thinking. I haven't made any arguments about regulation in general. However, passing a law so vague there are continuous arguments about how it affects backup strategies and attaching a 10-20 million euro penalty to it is absolutely a punishment out of proportion to the severity of the "crime" (which is itself not even remotely close in severity to polluting a river - which one has the chance to actually damage somebody's health? not data processing!).
- ricardobeat 9y agoWhy is it out of proportion? Leaking, exposing or selling personal data can have much worse and immediate effects on someone’s lives than river pollution.
- peoplewindow 9y agoThese rules aren't about leaking data accidentally (everyone already tried to stop that), "exposing" it is vague, not sure what you mean by that. And as for selling personal data - er, how? People get drinking water from rivers. If they're polluted you can get very nasty symptoms. I've never heard of anyone being sent to hospital because someone sold their data. At any rate, if the goal was to tackle data trading then there'd be no need for a "right to be forgotten" which is where most of the confusion and ambiguity comes from.