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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
by megaman22 9y 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 9y agoGDPR 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 agoFrom 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 agoTomb stoning?
- themacguffinman 8y agoMarking a database record as "dead" to hide it from view without actually deleting the data.
- taeric 8y agoThanks for answering! Apologies if I used a term that isn't wide use, yet.