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The GDPR is pretty restrictive, and if it's a law, the risk of a high fine is real and companies will think twice before doing business in the EU. Good for thos
by jotm 9y ago
The GDPR is pretty restrictive, and if it's a law, the risk of a high fine is real and companies will think twice before doing business in the EU. Good for those who can comply, terrible for the rest...
- gerdesj 9y agoI'm a UK (IT) business owner, you insensitive clod 8) I like the GDPR. It's a lot easier than ISO9001/27001 and actually nearly falls out if you have those. How many times have we whined and opined about a lack of responsibility displayed towards our personal data? Now a major bloc in the world is trying to get to grips with that issue with some pretty decent legislation (IMNSHO.) Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get something like this ratified by the EU? Do you have any idea how diverse the EU actually is? Getting this thing out is a massive feat. In the EU, we all have to comply with GDPR by default - all of us from cobblers to rocket scientists. I'm sure you'll manage.
- rdiddly 9y agoAnd if they can't manage, those of us who know how to do business will be there waiting to eat their lunch.
- jotm 9y agoThank God for Brexit heh
- M2Ys4U 9y agoNot really. GDPR is already law and EU law in force before brexit will continue to remain in force when (if) brexit happens.
- joejerryronnie 9y agoWait a minute, you're not in the EU anymore! Shouldn't you be railing against the self-serving protectionist agenda of those horrible bureaucrats of Brussels?!!
- gerdesj 9y agoWait a minute, you're not in the EU anymore! We (UKoGBnNI) are still in the EU for now - next year we sort of leave (ish!!) I've always whinged about those self serving bureaucrats in Bruxelles. Some of them are our own home brewed UKIP lot. It says a lot about democracy that UKIP or the SDP (int al) can even exist. We'll see what happens to the little old UK post Brexit - it will be written up as both a triumph and a disaster and yet I suspect life will tick on, much as before. GDPR on the other hand: that is important and worth paying attention to.
- jotm 9y agoNorthern Ireland, pretty much ROI but with UK postcodes. Very funny when you're shipping items there.
- gerdesj 9y agoNot so much fun living there in some ways (on both sides of the border) Bear in mind the UK use Sterling and the RoI use Euros. A NI person could work in RoI and be paid in EUR but pay rent etc in GBP. Obviously the reverse is true a RoI citizen might work in NI and be paid in GBP but needs EUR to live on. All a bit of a pain and of course the bank's exchange rate doesn't help. It is easy to poke fun at those at the edges but I think on balance a bit of sensitivity might be warranted here. Little Britain might think that they (we) have some problems to deal with wrt Brexit. I would suggest that we might look at NI and RoI and at least try to understand that the really important issues are right there - those issues and our responses to them are the ones that really define what sort of people we are now and will be in the future. The rest is accounting.
- jotm 9y agoStill in the EU though, and hopefully will remain in the SM or a CU, seems the gov are realizing the insanity of an actual hard Brexit...