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As far as I can tell the only impact GDPR has had on my life is that there are a lot more annoying popups for me to mindlessly click 'accept' on.

by darawk 8y ago

StavrosK 8y ago
Really? Then you aren't using it at all. The impact it's had on my life is that companies have to tell me what they're doing with my data. If I say no, they have to refrain from using it, they can't just say "well tough luck, we have it now". If I give my email for a contest, they can't keep spamming me with crap. If I tell them to forget I exist, they have to do it. If I want to see what Facebook knows about me, it has to tell me everything. As someone who runs dozens of side-projects with thousands of users, I didn't even have to change anything. All it took was to not be shitty to begin with.
- darawk 8y ago
  > The impact it's had on my life is that companies have to tell me what they're doing with my data Have you learned anything interesting from that? > If I say no, they have to refrain from using it, they can't just say "well tough luck, we have it now". Have you been doing that? > If I give my email for a contest, they can't keep spamming me with crap. That was already a thing in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 > If I tell them to forget I exist, they have to do it. That could be useful, I suppose. Although to be honest, it's likely to be used to erase bad behavior that we'd rather have public much more than any legitimate privacy concern, i'd guess.
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    > Have you learned anything interesting from that? No, the few I asked turned out to have as much data as I shared, which is almost nothing. > Have you been doing that? Yep. > That was already a thing in the US: Good to know. > it's likely to be used to erase bad behavior that we'd rather have public much more than any legitimate privacy concern, i'd guess. I'm not sure I agree with that, but I also don't agree that people's bad behaviour should remain public forever.
- erik_seaberg 8y ago
  The law is not merely a list of bad things you can't do. Many of its 99 sections require new bureaucratic procedures like "hire a data protection officer to write an impact assessment and wait eight to fourteen weeks for an official response" that you almost certainly weren't already doing.
  - ric2b 8y ago
    > new bureaucratic procedures like "hire a data protection officer Not "hire", "designate". The data protection officer is just a role that someone in the company takes on, it does't have to be their only role.

As far as I can tell the only impact GDPR has had on my life is that there are a lot more annoying popups for me to mindlessly click 'accept' on.

by darawk 8y ago

As far as I can tell the only impact GDPR has had on my life is that there are a lot more annoying popups for me to mindlessly click 'accept' on.

StavrosK 8y ago

Really? Then you aren't using it at all. The impact it's had on my life is that companies have to tell me what they're doing with my data. If I say no, they have to refrain from using it, they can't just say "well tough luck, we have it now". If I give my email for a contest, they can't keep spamming me with crap. If I tell them to forget I exist, they have to do it. If I want to see what Facebook knows about me, it has to tell me everything. As someone who runs dozens of side-projects with thousands of users, I didn't even have to change anything. All it took was to not be shitty to begin with.

darawk 8y ago
> The impact it's had on my life is that companies have to tell me what they're doing with my data Have you learned anything interesting from that? > If I say no, they have to refrain from using it, they can't just say "well tough luck, we have it now". Have you been doing that? > If I give my email for a contest, they can't keep spamming me with crap. That was already a thing in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 > If I tell them to forget I exist, they have to do it. That could be useful, I suppose. Although to be honest, it's likely to be used to erase bad behavior that we'd rather have public much more than any legitimate privacy concern, i'd guess.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  > Have you learned anything interesting from that? No, the few I asked turned out to have as much data as I shared, which is almost nothing. > Have you been doing that? Yep. > That was already a thing in the US: Good to know. > it's likely to be used to erase bad behavior that we'd rather have public much more than any legitimate privacy concern, i'd guess. I'm not sure I agree with that, but I also don't agree that people's bad behaviour should remain public forever.
erik_seaberg 8y ago
The law is not merely a list of bad things you can't do. Many of its 99 sections require new bureaucratic procedures like "hire a data protection officer to write an impact assessment and wait eight to fourteen weeks for an official response" that you almost certainly weren't already doing.
- ric2b 8y ago
  > new bureaucratic procedures like "hire a data protection officer Not "hire", "designate". The data protection officer is just a role that someone in the company takes on, it does't have to be their only role.