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You had two years to sort out a quick procedure for doing this process, and it still took an hour and a half. Didn't you have a script to do that semi-automatic

You had two years to sort out a quick procedure for doing this process, and it still took an hour and a half. Didn't you have a script to do that semi-automatically?

Matticus_Rex 8y ago
Half an hour*. And I got hired when my US company figured out the GDPR was important about seven months ago. We're in a bunch of verticals with a lot of different systems that can't all be made to talk to one another. Some of it is semi-automatic, some can't be, and some could be but would require a ton of developer time.
- gcthomas 8y ago
  Oh, only seven months to look at it? What were the lawyers doing all that time before then? IT techs here have been training for GDPR for the four years since the law was first designed.
  - wooter 8y ago
    > What were the lawyers doing all that time before then? IT techs here have been training for GDPR for the four years since the law was first designed. wow, and people claim this won't just destroy totally innocent startups.
    - gcthomas 8y ago
      Any business trading internationally has to have a care over the regulatory environment of the target country. Why is internet trading any different? What I meant by the 'four years' comment was not that it takes that long to train, but that GDPR has been included in the training for that long. A four year run-up is plenty long enough for even start-ups to get themselves up to speed and design their systems for privacy by design.
      - wooter 8y ago
        spoken like someone who's never started a company. > "What were the lawyers doing all that time before then?" what lawyers? do you realize that compliance, proving compliance, and implementing mandated features are completely separate tasks with cumulative costs? even if you aren't doing anything with the data? > Any business trading internationally has to have a care over the regulatory environment of the target country. Why is internet trading any different? bad, stifling, preemptive regulation is bad regulation in any industry. why is internet trading any different?
        gcthomas 8y ago
        I was in discussion with a poster who was working for a company structured "in a bunch of verticals with a lot of different systems that can't all be made to talk to one another". Don't you think that size of company would have a lawyer somewhere?
        Matticus_Rex 8y ago
        22 people, no lawyers. And even if we did, the vast majority of lawyers have no knowledge of Privacy. Legal background helps, but a CIPP/E is better.
  - Matticus_Rex 8y ago
    What lawyers? Most small companies don't have lawyers, and they still have to comply.

You had two years to sort out a quick procedure for doing this process, and it still took an hour and a half. Didn't you have a script to do that semi-automatically?

Matticus_Rex 8y ago

Half an hour*. And I got hired when my US company figured out the GDPR was important about seven months ago. We're in a bunch of verticals with a lot of different systems that can't all be made to talk to one another. Some of it is semi-automatic, some can't be, and some could be but would require a ton of developer time.

gcthomas 8y ago
Oh, only seven months to look at it? What were the lawyers doing all that time before then? IT techs here have been training for GDPR for the four years since the law was first designed.
- wooter 8y ago
  > What were the lawyers doing all that time before then? IT techs here have been training for GDPR for the four years since the law was first designed. wow, and people claim this won't just destroy totally innocent startups.
  - gcthomas 8y ago
    Any business trading internationally has to have a care over the regulatory environment of the target country. Why is internet trading any different? What I meant by the 'four years' comment was not that it takes that long to train, but that GDPR has been included in the training for that long. A four year run-up is plenty long enough for even start-ups to get themselves up to speed and design their systems for privacy by design.
    - wooter 8y ago
      spoken like someone who's never started a company. > "What were the lawyers doing all that time before then?" what lawyers? do you realize that compliance, proving compliance, and implementing mandated features are completely separate tasks with cumulative costs? even if you aren't doing anything with the data? > Any business trading internationally has to have a care over the regulatory environment of the target country. Why is internet trading any different? bad, stifling, preemptive regulation is bad regulation in any industry. why is internet trading any different?
      - gcthomas 8y ago
        I was in discussion with a poster who was working for a company structured "in a bunch of verticals with a lot of different systems that can't all be made to talk to one another". Don't you think that size of company would have a lawyer somewhere?
        Matticus_Rex 8y ago
        22 people, no lawyers. And even if we did, the vast majority of lawyers have no knowledge of Privacy. Legal background helps, but a CIPP/E is better.
- Matticus_Rex 8y ago
  What lawyers? Most small companies don't have lawyers, and they still have to comply.