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While in theory you are right, there is a distinction. GDPR makes business more difficult, but it codifies a human right to privacy that, much like worker safe
by zwaps 7y ago
While in theory you are right, there is a distinction.
GDPR makes business more difficult, but it codifies a human right to privacy that, much like worker safety, should have been implemented anyway.
The present regulation does the opposite. It ultimately implies that any company that does not comply with the insane US post 9/11 laws on large scale spying, extrajudicial sanctioning and, arguably, racial and ethnic discrimination, will be sued into the ground.
Scary especially for non US citizens, who are not in practice afforded judicatory or constitutional rights in the US
- novok 7y agoWhatabouting about the GDPR doesn't address any of the criticism of it, I wasn't talking about the EARN IT act in my comment. I bet many agree here any that those US laws and actions are bad too. I really care about privacy myself also, more than the typical tech worker looking at the actions of my coworkers compared to me. If there was GDPR casual or GDPR lite for small businesses, kind of like small business taxes where hiring an accountant once a year for a few thousand euros was enough, then I don't think people would be up in arms about the GDPR. If GDPR-casual was good faith level of actions where all you did is kept a log of privacy data clearing requests, like a copy of an email and a copy saying you did it back, and then did a best effort cleanup, I don't think anyone would care. It's the very large compliance burden that GDPR imposes, with a lot of liability gotchas everywhere if you don't implement bureaucratic detail #2929 that put people up in arms. And if you say that it isn't like that, it shows you haven't really looked at what is required by the GDPR or tried to implement it in your company.