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How is the country/continent of origin of a regulation that is entirely in your best interest of any relevance?

by adtac 9y ago

JumpCrisscross 9y ago
> How is the country/continent of origin of a regulation that is entirely in your best interest of any relevance? Laws carry their culture. GDPR is, from an American perspective, an overworked mess designed to support a big bureaucracy. This side of the Atlantic, we'd do something slimmer, more reliant on privately-funded cases (and regulatory complaints) versus public ombudsmen, and better attuned to start-ups’ needs.
- saiya-jin 9y ago
  US is generally corporation-first, EU is human-first. You can see it permeating many aspects of society, work, law etc. Don't hold your breath for too long for it, it would require clusterfuck on another scale to materialize in US
- StashOfCode 9y ago
  Indeed. A law is just a text in a hierachy of norms, and so is this text. Accordingly, its weight may vary from country to country in the EU, first because the relationship between the Constitution of a country and the EU norms may not be the same. Moreover, one should not forget that enforcing a law requires a whole judicial system, and once again, this judicial system may vary from country to country in the EU. Think of the GDPR as a program : it runs with some privileges in a given software context and requires some hardware ressources to run. IMHO, as an EU citizen, an American perspective would be welcome. A text must fit the local hierarchy of norms and the local judicial system. You may read this article related to this point of view : https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21739961-gdprs-premise-consumers-should-be-charge-their-own-personal-data-right https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21739961-gdprs-premis...
- encoderer 9y ago
  This correctly represents my feelings about it.
- kwhitefoot 9y ago
  How many pages are there in your tax code?
dwighttk 9y ago
>a regulation that is entirely in your best interest doesn't exist

How is the country/continent of origin of a regulation that is entirely in your best interest of any relevance?

by adtac 9y ago

How is the country/continent of origin of a regulation that is entirely in your best interest of any relevance?

> How is the country/continent of origin of a regulation that is entirely in your best interest of any relevance? Laws carry their culture. GDPR is, from an American perspective, an overworked mess designed to support a big bureaucracy. This side of the Atlantic, we'd do something slimmer, more reliant on privately-funded cases (and regulatory complaints) versus public ombudsmen, and better attuned to start-ups’ needs.

saiya-jin 9y ago
US is generally corporation-first, EU is human-first. You can see it permeating many aspects of society, work, law etc. Don't hold your breath for too long for it, it would require clusterfuck on another scale to materialize in US
StashOfCode 9y ago
Indeed. A law is just a text in a hierachy of norms, and so is this text. Accordingly, its weight may vary from country to country in the EU, first because the relationship between the Constitution of a country and the EU norms may not be the same. Moreover, one should not forget that enforcing a law requires a whole judicial system, and once again, this judicial system may vary from country to country in the EU. Think of the GDPR as a program : it runs with some privileges in a given software context and requires some hardware ressources to run. IMHO, as an EU citizen, an American perspective would be welcome. A text must fit the local hierarchy of norms and the local judicial system. You may read this article related to this point of view : https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21739961-gdprs-premise-consumers-should-be-charge-their-own-personal-data-right https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21739961-gdprs-premis...
encoderer 9y ago
This correctly represents my feelings about it.
kwhitefoot 9y ago
How many pages are there in your tax code?

dwighttk 9y ago

>a regulation that is entirely in your best interest doesn't exist