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This would be a huge improvement for made-and-sold-in-Europe, and would at least make a sizable dent... but the rest of the internet still exists, and doesn't c
by Groxx 7y ago
This would be a huge improvement for made-and-sold-in-Europe, and would at least make a sizable dent... but the rest of the internet still exists, and doesn't care where the botnet devices are made or installed, only that they exist.
Still, yea, this is exactly the kind of thing that needs to become commonplace. Hopefully it will be, though this is far from the first time that something like this has happened and here we still are.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoYou have to start somewhere. See also: GDPR - it's already made enough waves that other nations and even some US states are considering similar legislation.
- johnnycab 7y agoWhat are your experiences of acquiring information in Poland under GDPR, especially if you were either denied or came across any hurdles in exercising your rights; whether or not the subsequent disclosure was to your satisfaction?
- StavrosK 7y agoI'm not temporal, but haven't had many bad experiences that I chased up. I didn't request some data from Revolut that they didn't provide, but I didn't email their compliance officer to request it. I think they would have provided it if I had. Still, even just the fact that companies are now thinking about this and providing ways to download/delete your data makes me love the GDPR.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI haven't pursued any GDPR requests yet (though I considered it in some cases). For now, I'm just happily reaping benefits, such as having an option to download my data, or discovering that some off-line desktop games (like Kerbal Space Program, of all things!) did track me - past May 25, 2018, they suddenly started showing popups informing about this, and (this is the best part) I could deny it and keep playing.
- bluGill 7y agoA lot of companies want to sell world wide. It is a lot easier to have and support one product for the world than multiple products for each country. I have to regularly attend training which amounts to "Australian customers really want this product but we are still working on getting certification so be careful not to ship one accidentally. (It is a radio transmitter)
- greglindahl 7y agoYou can't wave a magic wand and harmonize radio frequency allocations -- they're different and change slowly.
- tomp 7y agoPowerful countries have the ability to apply their law extrateritorially, especially law concerning companies... e.g. UK stipulates that bribery is illegal everywhere in the world, so a UK company employing people in China and those Chinese employees bribing Chinese officials is illegal (in the UK), so the UK parent company could be responsible... Easy to do the same thing here, as long as the company has (and wants to keep having) presence in the EU that's enough to enforce standards worldwide.