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Long story short: Monal developer doesn't understand GDPR, makes a bunch of incorrect claims about it, doesn't want to understand it, and so removes his softwar
by abritinthebay 8y ago
Long story short: Monal developer doesn't understand GDPR, makes a bunch of incorrect claims about it, doesn't want to understand it, and so removes his software from the EU.
That's his right, go him.
He didn't have to write a ton of incorrect nonsense about the GDPR though. He could have just skipped to the last step.
GDPR compliance is not actually that hard - I'm in the middle of doing it for a very large company - as long as you're not storing information about users it's almost trivial tbh, but there are a lot of unfortunate vague terms in the law (the intent is rather clear however).
The reaction to this law in the US is rather funny because the rest of the world has been dealing with strange US laws for decades on the web... finally something bites the other direction and people freak out.
- abiox 8y ago> The reaction to this law in the US is rather funny because the rest of the world has been dealing with strange US laws for decades on the web... finally something bites the other direction and people freak out. i'm quite positive that i've seen people call for europeans to not do business with american businesses on account of said us laws (in other HN threads).
- abritinthebay 8y agoUsually over data privacy/hosting & law enforcement AFAIK. That’s more due to lack of laws there
- ahje 8y ago> as long as you're not storing information about users it's almost trivial tbh This is the part that most people seem to miss.
- abritinthebay 8y agoTrue! Even if you are it’s not too bad (the hardest part is tracking consent & that’s not exactly hard) People just don’t want to.
- nottorp 8y agoIf you're incorporated, there are crooks running around sending you threatening messages about the GDPR to make you buy their consultancy services. I suppose the USers would call that "aggressive marketing". I think this guy fell for it.
- abritinthebay 8y agoPossibly. I’m not saying GDPR is perfect but it’s nothing like how he characterizes it