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These organizations do have such an incentive. The very essence of GDPR is to create these incentives. The EU's goal with GDPR was to make user data a liability

These organizations do have such an incentive. The very essence of GDPR is to create these incentives. The EU's goal with GDPR was to make user data a liability, and to encourage organizations to reconsider their need to hoover and hoard it. The GDPR is unlikely to be overturned, and there are plenty in the EU who are eager to enforce it. Just because it's not being enforced right this second doesn't mean the law won't catch up to offenders. Especially if Margrethe Vestager replaces Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission, you can expect a ton of action on this front.

blibble 8y ago
> Especially if Margrethe Vestager replaces Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission, you can expect a ton of action on this front. the odds of this are essentially zero she's in a minor EU party and her own country won't put her forward as candidate
MaxBarraclough 8y ago
> there are plenty in the EU who are eager to enforce it But we haven't yet seen it enforced, have we?
- int_19h 8y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18416887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18416887
- rickycook 8y ago
  we have definitely seen movement (plenty of data protection authorities have issued warnings), but it really hasn’t been that long (it’s been less than a year) the only way that a law like the GDPR that’s purposefully vague and broad can work is to allow plenty of lead time for warnings and fixes before fines it’s a process; you shouldn’t expect it to change everything overnight
Mirioron 8y ago
>The EU's goal with GDPR was to make user data a liability, and to encourage organizations to reconsider their need to hoover and hoard it. And as a consequence we're going to continue sinking into irrelevance. >The GDPR is unlikely to be overturned, and there are plenty in the EU who are eager to enforce it. I think it will be overturned a couple of decades from now, when an economic crisis hits and we find that we've fallen significantly behind other countries due to our fear of technology.

blibble 8y ago

> Especially if Margrethe Vestager replaces Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission, you can expect a ton of action on this front. the odds of this are essentially zero she's in a minor EU party and her own country won't put her forward as candidate

MaxBarraclough 8y ago

> there are plenty in the EU who are eager to enforce it But we haven't yet seen it enforced, have we?

int_19h 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18416887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18416887
rickycook 8y ago
we have definitely seen movement (plenty of data protection authorities have issued warnings), but it really hasn’t been that long (it’s been less than a year) the only way that a law like the GDPR that’s purposefully vague and broad can work is to allow plenty of lead time for warnings and fixes before fines it’s a process; you shouldn’t expect it to change everything overnight

Mirioron 8y ago

>The EU's goal with GDPR was to make user data a liability, and to encourage organizations to reconsider their need to hoover and hoard it. And as a consequence we're going to continue sinking into irrelevance. >The GDPR is unlikely to be overturned, and there are plenty in the EU who are eager to enforce it. I think it will be overturned a couple of decades from now, when an economic crisis hits and we find that we've fallen significantly behind other countries due to our fear of technology.