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GDPR is about users, not companies/organizations. If I’m not mistaken, it applies to all persons in the EU (not « living there », or « citizen », literally eve

by KeitIG 8y ago

GDPR is about users, not companies/organizations. If I’m not mistaken, it applies to all persons in the EU (not « living there », or « citizen », literally everyone one currently « in » the EU). So this is totally possible.

megaman22 8y ago
GDPR is going to be a tax on software for a good chunk of time, and probably a decent source of employment for engineers, as companies wake up and realize that they now have to deal with it. Unless there specifically are requirements to make deleting user data easy, or even possible, that's probably been punted on for years in most software products.
- gerdesj 8y ago
  GDPR is going to be a tax on software for a good chunk of time Unless you are Facebook or Google or Amazon or Microsoft (etc), most reasonably responsible companies will already be very close to GDPR compliance. The regulations really are not too onerous. "Don't be evil" might cover it ...
  - taeric 8y ago
    From what I've seen, I wouldn't be too surprised if some practices make this hard for some companies. In particular, mixing customer data with company data and having a practice of tomb stoning rows.
    - OtterCoder 8y ago
      Tomb stoning?
      - themacguffinman 8y ago
        Marking a database record as "dead" to hide it from view without actually deleting the data.
        taeric 8y ago
        Thanks for answering! Apologies if I used a term that isn't wide use, yet.
dnomad 8y ago
This is nonsense. Why spread this nonsense instead of doing a 30-second google search? Why is there so much pure FUD and nonsense about GDPR on HN?
- closeparen 8y ago
  https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-top-ten-3-extraterritorial-applicability-of-the-gdpr.html https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-top... Websites offer services to all countries by default; all websites are subject to GDPR, regardless of where their owners live, unless they do something like GeoIP restrictions to exclude EU citizens.

by KeitIG 8y ago

megaman22 8y ago

GDPR is going to be a tax on software for a good chunk of time, and probably a decent source of employment for engineers, as companies wake up and realize that they now have to deal with it. Unless there specifically are requirements to make deleting user data easy, or even possible, that's probably been punted on for years in most software products.

gerdesj 8y ago
GDPR is going to be a tax on software for a good chunk of time Unless you are Facebook or Google or Amazon or Microsoft (etc), most reasonably responsible companies will already be very close to GDPR compliance. The regulations really are not too onerous. "Don't be evil" might cover it ...
- taeric 8y ago
  From what I've seen, I wouldn't be too surprised if some practices make this hard for some companies. In particular, mixing customer data with company data and having a practice of tomb stoning rows.
  - OtterCoder 8y ago
    Tomb stoning?
    - themacguffinman 8y ago
      Marking a database record as "dead" to hide it from view without actually deleting the data.
      - taeric 8y ago
        Thanks for answering! Apologies if I used a term that isn't wide use, yet.

dnomad 8y ago

This is nonsense. Why spread this nonsense instead of doing a 30-second google search? Why is there so much pure FUD and nonsense about GDPR on HN?

closeparen 8y ago
https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-top-ten-3-extraterritorial-applicability-of-the-gdpr.html https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-top... Websites offer services to all countries by default; all websites are subject to GDPR, regardless of where their owners live, unless they do something like GeoIP restrictions to exclude EU citizens.