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I agree, it's really not the legislation that should be blamed, it's the crappy websites.
by fiiv 8y ago
I agree, it's really not the legislation that should be blamed, it's the crappy websites.
- hutzlibu 8y agoHm, I don't know all the details of those websites, but I think it might have also something to do with the unwillingness to having to comply with foreign law. The US Military News for example, probably won't need the tracking, as they have other intel and income sources, but they are also on the list. I suspect as a political statement.
- oytis 8y agoMaybe not a political statement, just unwillingness to pay lawyers extra for supporting compliance to a law they don't care about.
- aicantar 8y agoA political statement against protecting people? Awesome.
- hutzlibu 8y agoA political statement against foreign intervention. A la, if there is a need to protect people, then we make those laws ourself. "But who is the EU to tell our companys what to do!" But maybe note, that I am explaining the possible point of view for this side, not that I take this side. But since I got downvoted allready apparently, this was intellectually too hard for some to understand.
- BjoernKW 8y agoIt's both. The legislation, while based on good intentions, isn't exactly a prime example of an easy-to-implement, consistent set of rules. There's no excuse for larger players to not implement these rules. Many smaller players however, struggled and in some cases still struggle with this because some of the rules are rather vague (sometimes intentionally so in order to be future-proof) and hence open for interpretation. There's the rub: While the law is clearly targeted at larger companies - to the extent some have called it Lex Facebook - it's the smaller companies and hobbyists, for whom implementing GDPR is more of a problem. I wouldn't be surprised if, in the long run, companies such as Facebook actually benefited from GDPR, at the expense of smaller competitors.
- oytis 8y ago> I wouldn't be surprised if, in the long run, companies such as Facebook actually benefited from GDPR, at the expense of smaller competitors. That is basically the end effect of any regulation: life gets harder for small players and newcomers.
- zucan 8y agoIs it really a problem with the specific implementation (GDPR) or rather with the general idea that a person should be in control about their data?
- BjoernKW 8y agoIt's a problem with the implementation. I have yet to meet a small business owner who doesn't agree that people should be in control of their data.
- fiiv 8y agoWhat part of it do you think is hard to do for small business exactly?
- BjoernKW 8y agoI described some of the issues small businesses are faced with in this comment on an earlier article about GDPR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099878