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Yeah I get that. I googled around a bit and apparently there were concrete figures in the initial draft. I don't know if the EU has a contactperson to whom you

by midasz 8y ago

Yeah I get that. I googled around a bit and apparently there were concrete figures in the initial draft. I don't know if the EU has a contactperson to whom you can ask these questions, if they do, you can simply ask them to clarify. If you've done that, you're in the clear because you've put in the effort to comply. But yeah in this case they should just give you a number.

pjc50 8y ago
> I don't know if the EU has a contactperson to whom you can ask these questions, if they do, you can simply ask them to clarify. lol of course there isn't an office you can ring to help you with this! If there were we wouldn't be spending quite so much effort working out what it all means.
- M2Ys4U 8y ago
  Each of the 28 member states of the EU has a data protection authority. Those are the people one rings to get advice.
- midasz 8y ago
  Well for my country (NL) we have the AP and with 2 clicks I have their phone number: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/contact-met-de-autoriteit-persoonsgegevens/telefonisch-contact https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/contact-met-de-auto... .... > If there were we wouldn't be spending quite so much effort working out what it all means People love drama.
  - repolfx 8y ago
    You don't seem to know much about GDPR. Firstly, no, your national regulators cannot give you binding answers about GDPR. This is one thing the EU Commission has been clear on. They can advise, but their advice has no more weight than this Hacker News thread does - the EU is not required to care about what national regulators said and they have no special powers to interpret the law. Only the EU gets to decide what GDPR means, and they have said explicitly they will not answer questions about it. The only time answers finally come is during legal actions. Secondly, no, people do not "love drama" in the business context, far from it. Maybe you should consider that your own interpretation of the problem is the issue rather than other people just causing drama for the sake of it.
    - midasz 8y ago
      k

by midasz 8y ago

pjc50 8y ago

> I don't know if the EU has a contactperson to whom you can ask these questions, if they do, you can simply ask them to clarify. lol of course there isn't an office you can ring to help you with this! If there were we wouldn't be spending quite so much effort working out what it all means.

M2Ys4U 8y ago
Each of the 28 member states of the EU has a data protection authority. Those are the people one rings to get advice.
midasz 8y ago
Well for my country (NL) we have the AP and with 2 clicks I have their phone number: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/contact-met-de-autoriteit-persoonsgegevens/telefonisch-contact https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/contact-met-de-auto... .... > If there were we wouldn't be spending quite so much effort working out what it all means People love drama.
- repolfx 8y ago
  You don't seem to know much about GDPR. Firstly, no, your national regulators cannot give you binding answers about GDPR. This is one thing the EU Commission has been clear on. They can advise, but their advice has no more weight than this Hacker News thread does - the EU is not required to care about what national regulators said and they have no special powers to interpret the law. Only the EU gets to decide what GDPR means, and they have said explicitly they will not answer questions about it. The only time answers finally come is during legal actions. Secondly, no, people do not "love drama" in the business context, far from it. Maybe you should consider that your own interpretation of the problem is the issue rather than other people just causing drama for the sake of it.
  - midasz 8y ago
    k