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Yes, I'm from Europe, and it's my opinion that the GDPR is very necessary and mostly reasonable. I say that even though it caused me a lot of work for the past
by lima 8y ago
Yes, I'm from Europe, and it's my opinion that the GDPR is very necessary and mostly reasonable.
I say that even though it caused me a lot of work for the past months.
The requirement to hire a DPO is not a new thing, by the way - many countries in the EU already required this. This is true for many provisions in the GDPR - in Germany, for example, very little changes from the way it used to be, their data protection law was strict to begin with.
The big difference is that companies would just ignore the laws in, say, Germany since they were operating from Ireland, and would claim that the German courts had no jurisdiction. Now, it's the same everywhere in Europe, which makes it much easier to enforce.
- lajhsdfkl 8y ago>The requirement to hire a DPO is not a new thing, by the way - many countries in the EU already required this. This is true for many provisions in the GDPR - in Germany, for example, very little changes from the way it used to be, their data protection law was strict to begin with. Good for those countries? I'm not going to be happy with the idea of hiring some idiot to sit around and do nothing all day.
- Quanttek 8y agoJesús Christ, how disingenuous can you be? "Hiring" a DPO basically means appointing someone to the role who will take over these responsibilities. Depending on the size of your firm, the workload might be quite low and somebody can do it on the side, or, if you're talking Facebook, you might have a small department to do it.