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The overreaction to GDPR from US tech startups in particular surprised me at first. But my partner is a lawyer working on GDPR compliance for a variety of tech
by matthewmacleod 8y ago
The overreaction to GDPR from US tech startups in particular surprised me at first. But my partner is a lawyer working on GDPR compliance for a variety of tech firms, and he explained that there's almost a historical cultural difference in terms of attitudes to ownership of personal data.
European regulation typically treats personal data as being the property of the person being identified; US tradition considers data generated by a company to the be the property of that company, not of the person.
This made the whole massive unnecessary panic by primarily US-based small companies much more understandable to me.
- jcims 8y agoIt's not really 'unnecessary' if you didn't account for the objectives of the GDPR in your initial design. Assign any moral attributes you like to it, if GDPR requires substantial tinkering with your product then it's reasonable to be concerned.