3 ms·
I feel like you need to explain how China's great firewall (I assume this is what you referenced) is the same as the GDPR? One prevents people in China from ac
by wlll 8y ago
I feel like you need to explain how China's great firewall (I assume this is what you referenced) is the same as the GDPR?
One prevents people in China from accessing stuff the government doesn't like, the other prevents companies from treating your data like shit.
> Your world on the internet looks different based on citizenship
Yes, my world on the Internet looks a hell of a lot better than the Internet as seen from the US.
- dominotw 8y ago> Yes, my world on the Internet looks a hell of a lot better than the Internet as seen from the US. Internet in rest of world is fine. Atleast our govt doesn't record our porn watching activities via unknown third parties.
- tannhaeuser 8y agoHuh? Maybe I've misunderstood you, but porn laws in EU are quite a bit more liberal compared to US. And authorities are also subject to GDPR.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoHe's probably referring to the UK, specifically.
- johannes1234321 8y agoOnly via the NSA :)
- hedora 8y agoIf you follow the money, they are similar. Both make it harder for the incumbent, US based monopolies to compete with home-grown services. Also, they both massively break the “end-to-end” principle, since your geographic location (and therefore ISP) has a big impact on what data gets served. (The differences between the two are arguably more important, but they are obvious, and have been discussed to death, so I won’t bother pointing them out)
- Zalastax 8y agoHow is it harder for a US based company to comply with GDPR than a EU based company? There is no breakage of the end-to-end principle either. EU can only legislate in their own region, so they can't enforce GDPR outside of EU. A company thqt is GDPR compliant for every user doesn't have to check the IP at all. Any differences stem only from the companies will to keep abusing users data in the rest of the world.