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No one is forcing you to follow it, but I suspect this is just the begining, GDPR is comming from EU due to history reasons, Europe has a lot of bad memories ab
by _o_ 9y ago
No one is forcing you to follow it, but I suspect this is just the begining, GDPR is comming from EU due to history reasons, Europe has a lot of bad memories about keeping lists and tracking users. From Nazis to Stasi, USSR and so on and on. What is today done by google, fb, twitter is a light years ahead of that. Try to understand that GDPR is not something bad, it is rasing credibility for your bussiness and is doing something right. I bet a lot of, lets say, USA cityzens will value text "we are GDPR compliant for whole world" on web site. It is oportunity that Backblaze grabbed and soon sites that don't follow it will be on fishy side of the internet. And I also believe, a lot of non EU contries will adapt similar laws, the attack on privacy has gone too far, don't blame EU, blame ggl and fb.
- peoplewindow 9y agoIt's not related to the Nazis. Please. If it were really related to memory of abusive governments they wouldn't have just written a law with phenomenal penalties and ultra-vague language that everyone can be argued to violate - exactly the sort of law that all totalitarian states love to have. GDPR exists because the EU wants to be the primary legislating entity in Europe, replacing local governments, and because it likes the idea of funding itself through huge fines. It exists to serve political ends.