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This is unnecessarily alarmist and hilarious. It's clear that personal information and other data was not properly respected by many startups and large companie
by TAForObvReasons 8y ago
This is unnecessarily alarmist and hilarious. It's clear that personal information and other data was not properly respected by many startups and large companies. Data "breaches" and the various apology tours have shown a massive loophole in the law, and now the law is responding by closing the loophole.
If your business was profiting specifically by exploiting personal information, this would be a sad day for you but a "good riddance" moment for the rest of the world. If you have a legitimate business that isn't underpinned by such odious behaviors, this demands a small review of your business practices but is generally a good thing.
- _jn 8y agoI’d be very interested in hearing the counterarguments to this comment instead of just seeing downvotes.
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoThe uncommented and numerous downvotes (-4 at the moment) in these discussions about GDPR remind me of the great Upton Sinclair quote: > It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- x0x0 8y agoIt's a lot more than a "small review", even for product focused sites not anywhere near the business of selling or monetizing personal data.
- salvar 8y agoThat's fair, but businesses need to do all kinds of things they'd rather not have to do, just to be able to do business. I'm not sure I really believe the sky is falling just because businesses need to take better care of user data.