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Law is terrible because after two years people still don't know what to do and how to be complaint. There is as many interpretations as interpreters and so on.
by merinowool 8y ago
Law is terrible because after two years people still don't know what to do and how to be complaint. There is as many interpretations as interpreters and so on. GDPR is a tool to shut down websites under guise of protecting privacy.
- quadrangle 8y agoOh come on. Hanlon's Razor. GDPR, like all laws, has something to do with power struggles. But do you have evidence supporting your doubt that it's actually intended to be about protecting citizen privacy?
- test525 8y agoGiven that protectionism is stupid and protectionists genuinely believe that they are doing something good for their nation when they implement protectionist policies I can use Hanlon's razor and assume both.
- quadrangle 8y ago"protectionism is stupid" can be used as a generality, but if you make it a broad, confident assertion you're removing human judgment and trying to apply simplistic rules to the world — which is exactly the type of thinking that makes bureaucracies stupid. And yes, with Hanlon's Razor, you can still criticize things that you accept as likely coming from good intentions.
- merinowool 8y agoThis has opened so many attack vectors than it closed. For example you no longer need to hack a database to get user data. Just impersonate and request the data from target company. Cookie law trained people to click anything without reading and people don't understand what they do online. Then data portability will enable more pii in circulation. For example fake social network enables Facebook account import for prizes and so on. Now GDPR emails train people to mindlessly signup and agree to whatever. Just create fake email asking to sign up to copy of a target site. Obtain password and download all data. Furthermore employees will have easy access to neatly packaged user data, so that they can sell it in the site. This law is hackers wet dream.
- quadrangle 8y agoIndeed, there may be really negative consequences of incompetence. But understanding when it's incompetence versus malice is still useful perspective.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoIsn't that mostly because, despite being given 2 years to implement, nobody's really bothered to do anything until the last second?
- merinowool 8y agoIf it is unclear what to do, then why would anyone risk doing it wrong?
- s73v3r_ 8y agoIf you start out early, you can contact your country's regulator for guidance.
- merinowool 8y agoWhich are not going to know either, because it is all free to interpretation. It is not uncommon that even when government offers paid interpretation, so that company can back what they do by it, to withdraw it couple years later and fine the company (Because civil servant giving out the interpretation was wrong or for other reasons).