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Here it is: https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html Hands up. Who has actually read all of it? Speaking as some
by neffy 8y ago
Here it is:
https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html
Hands up. Who has actually read all of it?
Speaking as somebody who actually has - was teaching computer security last term - I found it relatively easy to read (as legal documents go) - but it still took a weekend. I will guarantee you, that not all of the high powered lawyers whose job it is to read it, have done that.
True story: back in the days when libraries still stamped your book with the date it was due back, I took out a copy of Keynes General Theory from the main library where I lived. It's not that thick of a book, and according to the date stamps it had been borrowed at least 20 or so times. About half way through the pages hadn't been cut.
It was a few years before the significance of that finally dawned on me. As in many things in life, HN discussions on the GDPR are a wonderful example of nobody actually reading it, and everybody having an opinion of it.
- bmer 8y agoI am just seeing a couple of scrolls worth of text---definitely not weekend-long reading material. Am I reading the right thing, or is your link mis-pointed?
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- duxup 8y agoI'm only seeing a very short summary too.
- erik_seaberg 8y agohttps://ec.europa.eu/info/files/regulation-eu-2016-679-protection-natural-persons-regard-processing-personal-data-and-free-movement-such-data_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/files/regulation-eu-2016-679-prote... is some fifty thousand words (i.e., a novel worth of legalese).
- duxup 8y ago"https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html" https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html" Well now I read that link, but I don't think that's the actual law...