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>Which is the reason most Europeans were talking of GDPR as though it was a non-event in the many HN discussions. Every European business had been doing it for

>Which is the reason most Europeans were talking of GDPR as though it was a non-event in the many HN discussions. Every European business had been doing it for decades under data protection. You must live in a different Europe than I do, because I'm pretty sure that most companies that don't deal with the internet, don't even know what privacy they're required to provide. People still regularly use gmail for some business tasks, they openly list data that shouldn't be shared etc. I don't think what you said is true at all. I think most companies simply don't know that they're in violation in some way or another.

NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Not every company I've dealt with, or worked for has been net based. All have had some sort of awareness of Data Protection. Obviously, there were also exemptions for the smallest businesses. Sometimes awareness was simply a weekend going through DPA and deciding they were small enough to be exempt. The biggest problem with Data Protection was the maximum penalty, and that it had no teeth for data that moved out of area. It simply wasn't enough for the larger corporations to care that much - unless they were purely national. Hence some companies being fined multiple times for the same failings. I don't believe there's a Shell, Philips, Siemens or Glaxo that didn't have awareness, data protection officer and so on.