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Interested in finding this out as well. So far, not a single thread discussing GDPR on HN made this explicitly clear.
by filoleg 9y ago
Interested in finding this out as well. So far, not a single thread discussing GDPR on HN made this explicitly clear.
- dingo_bat 9y agoThat's part of the fun. It is so ambiguous and vague that nobody is clear on the specifics.
- izacus 9y agoIt's only unambiguous to the people who don't want to refuse to understand it because they're making profit on selling out people's data.
- Multicomp 9y agoThat is a false choice. According to that, you A) love this law or B) exist only to profit off tracking pixels and JavaScript beacons mwa he ha Or it could be the people running 100-user-or-less sites are trying to see if they can just leave their sites up, ignore the "oh yeah, well your web server has IP addresses in your LOGS doesn't it!? Well guess what, OUR logs show an EU IP address, so you know what the letter of the law let's us do? €20 million fine, you data slurping fiend!!" frivolous lawsuits in hopes of keeping their little side project which while (maybe) technically noncompliant, aren't actually using the data for those nefarious purposes, only DDoS and spam mitigations.
- ehsankia 9y agoHere's an even dumber question. If you don't live in the EU and your site is not hosted there, do they have any legal power to get to you? What is the worst case scenario if you don't respond and don't pay any fines? Will they block your site from the EU or get your provider to take it down? What kind of power do they have to come at you?
- isostatic 9y agoSame power the US has over enforcing its global laws (DMCA etc)