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The penalty for screwing it up is 20m euros or 4% turnover - why is it not surprising that devs play it safe? This is entirely the laws fault for driving this b
by Vanit 6y ago
The penalty for screwing it up is 20m euros or 4% turnover - why is it not surprising that devs play it safe? This is entirely the laws fault for driving this behaviour.
- jimnotgym 6y agoThat is not correct. This is the penalty for wilfully screwing it up, and refusing to engage with the regulator when challenged. The most likely outcome of being reported is some advice from the regulator about how to comply.
- thereisnospork 6y ago> This is the penalty for wilfully screwing it up It isn't incidental that the penalty for being accused of willfully screwing it up is quite high: having to defend oneself against a 20 million dollar judgement.
- anoncake 6y agoBy now it should be known that doesn't happen.
- thereisnospork 6y agoSays who? Even if it doesn't today, what authoritative source says it won't tomorrow? You can't act surprised when people drive 55 in a 65mph zone because 'no one gets a 20 million dollar ticket for accidentally doing 5 over.'
- anoncake 6y agoIt's simply how things work in countries that aren't failing like the USA. Your paranoia is unfounded.
- thereisnospork 6y agoYup you are right, it is definitely every website with a cookie banner that's wrong. Can't possibly be the result of regulation which protects important things like privacy. When the world disagrees with what you think should be happening the problem is not with the world but with your understanding of it.
- anoncake 6y ago"Eat shit! Millions of flies can't be wrong." I prefer critical thinking over appeals to the majority.
- neximo64 6y ago> 'wilfully' subjective and at the discretion of the accuser. There's a saying somewhere: Simple rules give rise to complex behaviour. Complex rules give rise to simplistic behaviour.
- anoncake 6y agoSo you think the law shouldn't make a difference between murder and accidents either?
- thereisnospork 6y agoAre you volunteering your site to be the test case?
- anoncake 6y agoIf I had one, of course.