4 ms·

it amazes me how many hackernews readers/commenters seem to have no idea what gdpr is or what it means for them. if a site has a "gdpr popup" then that means t

it amazes me how many hackernews readers/commenters seem to have no idea what gdpr is or what it means for them. if a site has a "gdpr popup" then that means they are doing something that the know is morally and legally questionable - not that the law is wrong ffs.

crusso 6y ago
That's because for many of us outside of the EU, it doesn't mean much besides yet more email from content providers regarding changes to their privacy policies that I just delete. I wish you guys the best of luck with it, though. I would like for my country's notion of "who owns my data?" resolve more to "me". I'm torn about how much it'll cost me to own my own data, though, in a reduction of frictionless free stuff on the internet.
- hammington 6y ago
  have you had any reduction in emails you dont want? i get a lot less since gdpr. plus i can now get my data from lots of sites as they cant be bothered to restrict non-eu people to not have the functionality. plus quite a few more sites / services have options to delete my account and data that only came about because of gdpr plus it seems like other places are considering similar laws too so then the "benifits" will be felt by even more people. oh and now you get an indicator of how crumby a company is by how hard it is to opt out of things. dunno it just seems like a lot of wins. with the main downside being that my person data abuse is regularly brought to my attention via popups etc. but that doesn't seem sustainable - i am hoping its a transitional thing and company actually just start complying.. but i guess that will take the EU laying down some serious fines to make examples - which to be fair this article seems to be a step towards. seems like many other control systems (e.g. dangerous goods shipping or hazardous chemical controls) that the governing bodies are careful in applying the law to make sure they don't just fine companies into oblivion if they are making steps in the right direction and fix anything specifically called out.

crusso 6y ago

That's because for many of us outside of the EU, it doesn't mean much besides yet more email from content providers regarding changes to their privacy policies that I just delete. I wish you guys the best of luck with it, though. I would like for my country's notion of "who owns my data?" resolve more to "me". I'm torn about how much it'll cost me to own my own data, though, in a reduction of frictionless free stuff on the internet.

hammington 6y ago
have you had any reduction in emails you dont want? i get a lot less since gdpr. plus i can now get my data from lots of sites as they cant be bothered to restrict non-eu people to not have the functionality. plus quite a few more sites / services have options to delete my account and data that only came about because of gdpr plus it seems like other places are considering similar laws too so then the "benifits" will be felt by even more people. oh and now you get an indicator of how crumby a company is by how hard it is to opt out of things. dunno it just seems like a lot of wins. with the main downside being that my person data abuse is regularly brought to my attention via popups etc. but that doesn't seem sustainable - i am hoping its a transitional thing and company actually just start complying.. but i guess that will take the EU laying down some serious fines to make examples - which to be fair this article seems to be a step towards. seems like many other control systems (e.g. dangerous goods shipping or hazardous chemical controls) that the governing bodies are careful in applying the law to make sure they don't just fine companies into oblivion if they are making steps in the right direction and fix anything specifically called out.