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I can agree with the motivation, but the law is not particularly well written. If the EU passes a law and it takes armies of lawyers over two years of negotiat
by IX-103 7y ago
I can agree with the motivation, but the law is not particularly well written.
If the EU passes a law and it takes armies of lawyers over two years of negotiating with the EU to find a compromise of what is and isn't included in the law (with the EU changing its stance regularly), then it probably isn't a good law.
It took a year and a half of wrangling for the EU to decide that internet advertising was not a "legitimate business interest" or "necessary to perform tasks at the request of the data subject" (despite the advertising being a primary source of funding to pay for the requested task). Then the entire internet advertising industry had just 6 months to design/implement/deploy a system that can meet the requirements and migrate all their users to the new platform (keeping in mind that their users have a financial incentive not to switch, since the old system is more profitable).
There's also the weird catch-22 of how it only applies to users with EU citizenship, but you can't collect, use, or store the information on whether or not they are an EU citizen without their permission.