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I work for a major news media company and our GDPR compliance has been extremely difficult with our relatively small dev staff that manages many news outlets so

I work for a major news media company and our GDPR compliance has been extremely difficult with our relatively small dev staff that manages many news outlets so we've opted to block access from all of Europe. It's gotten a lot of press, but it's an unfortunate reality. Most of our adtech and analytics vendors we use have put the burden on smaller companies like us -- ripe for disaster.

hankhonk 8y ago
then stop using them, instapaper
- deleted 8y ago
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falcon620 8y ago
That's an interesting way to broadcast your lack of technical/lateral thinking skills over there at latimes.com (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15604736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15604736). You could look at USA Today's way of temporarily handling this as an example of what could be done with a few hours of work. You're saying that the GDPR is so taxing because your team is so small? Meanwhile you're recruiting data scientists to your existing team to fuck over your users' privacy even further? Come on! This is just embarassing. Grow up. I suspect you're just upset that your role is suddenly at the risk of becoming a lot less relevant - you are worried that this attitude of government regulation of privacy aspects will actually spread so that it impacts you in a meaningfull way and you want to nip it in the bud.
- dang 8y ago
  Hounding another user like this counts as personal attack, and a virulent strain of it to boot. If you do this again we will ban you. Please treat others respectfully on this site, regardless of how strongly you disagree with them or their employer. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- standyro 8y ago
  Your snarky attitude is the real embarrassment, and you misread into what my feelings are about GDPR. Agreed that our company handled it poorly -- and that's on our leadership (which is a much much longer story) -- Note: my opinions are not the opinion of my employer. But your real anger should be directed at your technologist/programmer peers who work at Facebook and Google who take six figure salaries and compromise moral dignity, not at media outlets, or small companies -- and from reading your comments on HN -- we can agree on that.

hankhonk 8y ago

then stop using them, instapaper

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falcon620 8y ago

That's an interesting way to broadcast your lack of technical/lateral thinking skills over there at latimes.com (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15604736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15604736). You could look at USA Today's way of temporarily handling this as an example of what could be done with a few hours of work. You're saying that the GDPR is so taxing because your team is so small? Meanwhile you're recruiting data scientists to your existing team to fuck over your users' privacy even further? Come on! This is just embarassing. Grow up. I suspect you're just upset that your role is suddenly at the risk of becoming a lot less relevant - you are worried that this attitude of government regulation of privacy aspects will actually spread so that it impacts you in a meaningfull way and you want to nip it in the bud.

dang 8y ago
Hounding another user like this counts as personal attack, and a virulent strain of it to boot. If you do this again we will ban you. Please treat others respectfully on this site, regardless of how strongly you disagree with them or their employer. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
standyro 8y ago
Your snarky attitude is the real embarrassment, and you misread into what my feelings are about GDPR. Agreed that our company handled it poorly -- and that's on our leadership (which is a much much longer story) -- Note: my opinions are not the opinion of my employer. But your real anger should be directed at your technologist/programmer peers who work at Facebook and Google who take six figure salaries and compromise moral dignity, not at media outlets, or small companies -- and from reading your comments on HN -- we can agree on that.