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My takeaway from the whole GDPR craze is that if you respect your users and have some ethics as to how you process their data then you don't have much to worry
by Rjevski 9y ago
My takeaway from the whole GDPR craze is that if you respect your users and have some ethics as to how you process their data then you don't have much to worry about to begin with.
If you are an asshole that's trying to get as much data off your users in order to resell them to the highest bidder, share it with "partners" (partners in crime that is), or to advertise/spam them with shit they don't need, then frankly you (or your industry) asked for this themselves.
The only downside I see to GDPR is that we've now opened the gates for a new breed of "GDPR consultant" that's gonna charge hundreds an hour just to rehash what the law says in a slightly different way and defraud businesses that way by pretending to be a valuable service (and no doubt there will be clueless execs that'll actually believe it and pay for that).
- jpttsn 9y agoYou seem to predict the law will have exactly the intended effects. That amounts to a very high regard for the lawmakers. Remembering laws that haven’t worked as intended, and failing to recall anything particular about these lawmakers, I find your stance optimistic.
- ec109685 9y agoDo you have any citations for this belief? The law is pretty explicit that you need consent to collect data from users, they need to be able to view what you collected and they need to be able to delete it. Are you hoping that nobody notices that you aren’t complying?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThe point was that "if you respect your users and have some ethics", you're likely already almost entirely compliant with GDPR.
- ec109685 9y agoThat's not true.
- ionised 9y agoHow informative.
- ec109685 9y agoPlease read the grand parent comment. If you collect data that can be tied to the user using your app/site (e.g. create a session and store the id as a cookie), you need to get consent for that. On top of that, the user should be able to view and remove the data you have collected for them.