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What specifically about the 2016/679 directive allows the government to fine a company or individual for not revealing their source?

SiempreViernes 8y ago
She was prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss who in the current government had faked their PhDs, I think it's clear "GDPR" was just the word they waved around as a the token flimsy excuse. She could (almost) equally as likely been prevented from attending "for her own safety" if the ladies toilet had ran out of toilet paper.
JumpCrisscross 8y ago
GDPR’s investigation and mediation sections were broadly written. Whenever I brought this up, it was thrown down with variants of “you’re American; European governments can be trusted to be nice.”
- SiempreViernes 8y ago
  This sort of obvious misapplication of law can't be prevented by anything sort of making entirely pointless laws nobody will bother with. It is a pretty hollow objection to say that "this law is being misused in regions where law is applied arbitrarily!".
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  - JumpCrisscross 8y ago
    > This sort of obvious misapplication of law can't be prevented Sure it can. Complain-and-investigate frameworks are among the more onerous regulatory designs. America features them in its securities regulations, but that's because nothing short of a high-calibre solution was working. Other options include absolute liability, negotiated settlement, reporting & monitoring, subsidized mediation & arbitration and combinations thereof. If one really wanted a complain-and-investigate model, a single European enforcement body would have been superior to letting each of the EU's members interpret and enforce the regulation to their preferences. These issues were brought up early, often and loudly. Unfortunately, opposition to the law was repeatedly conflated with opposition to its aims.
    - SiempreViernes 8y ago
      She was physically prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss if persons had cheated to get their PhD by invoking GDPR, that is pants-on-fire misuse. This really has nothing to do with the framework chosen.

SiempreViernes 8y ago

She was prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss who in the current government had faked their PhDs, I think it's clear "GDPR" was just the word they waved around as a the token flimsy excuse. She could (almost) equally as likely been prevented from attending "for her own safety" if the ladies toilet had ran out of toilet paper.

JumpCrisscross 8y ago

GDPR’s investigation and mediation sections were broadly written. Whenever I brought this up, it was thrown down with variants of “you’re American; European governments can be trusted to be nice.”

SiempreViernes 8y ago
This sort of obvious misapplication of law can't be prevented by anything sort of making entirely pointless laws nobody will bother with. It is a pretty hollow objection to say that "this law is being misused in regions where law is applied arbitrarily!".
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- JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > This sort of obvious misapplication of law can't be prevented Sure it can. Complain-and-investigate frameworks are among the more onerous regulatory designs. America features them in its securities regulations, but that's because nothing short of a high-calibre solution was working. Other options include absolute liability, negotiated settlement, reporting & monitoring, subsidized mediation & arbitration and combinations thereof. If one really wanted a complain-and-investigate model, a single European enforcement body would have been superior to letting each of the EU's members interpret and enforce the regulation to their preferences. These issues were brought up early, often and loudly. Unfortunately, opposition to the law was repeatedly conflated with opposition to its aims.
  - SiempreViernes 8y ago
    She was physically prevented from attending a meeting where they would discuss if persons had cheated to get their PhD by invoking GDPR, that is pants-on-fire misuse. This really has nothing to do with the framework chosen.