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Law is by its nature open to interpretation and based on precedent. Otherwise there wouldn't be courts of appeal and supreme courts. What's so special about GDP
by frereubu 8y ago
Law is by its nature open to interpretation and based on precedent. Otherwise there wouldn't be courts of appeal and supreme courts. What's so special about GDPR that makes you think it will be abused more than other laws?
- raquo 8y agoThe "special" part is that it prescribes very specific things in very ambiguous terms. You have to change what you're doing to be compliant, but you don't know how. And for some aspects, no one knows how. And GDPR actually has teeth. It's ripe for selective enforcement and other bureaucracy failures.
- BjoernKW 8y agoWhat you're describing is the way common law works. Most European jurisdictions work under a civil law system.
- icebraining 8y agoIt's not black and white, precedent exists in civil law systems as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#Civil_law_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#Civil_law_systems
- BjoernKW 8y agoYes, common law and civil law systems have been converging to some extent. In common law systems you have increasing reliance on statutory law while civil law systems increasingly make use of precedents. Still, the basic principles remain.