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Typical of this kind of regulation: the real purpose is less about ensuring individual rights and more about giving bureaucrats more power. The GDPR is great in
by bjornsing 6y ago
Typical of this kind of regulation: the real purpose is less about ensuring individual rights and more about giving bureaucrats more power. The GDPR is great in the latter sense. It’s impossible to predict the outcome of a legal process even if you do your very best to comply, and you can be slapped with incredible fines... Cross the wrong bureaucrat and your days are numbered (in an economic sense).
- bjornsing 6y agoOps, that was obviously a controversial standpoint. Just to be clear: I’m all for individual rights. But laws need to have predictable consequences and be fairly and equally enforced, and my impression is that the GDPR is not. As an example I’m pretty sure the local court here in Malmö, Sweden has violated my rights under the GDPR. Do you think anybody would give a rats ass if I complained? I highly doubt it...
- samus 6y agoIt might depend on the country, but Austrian authorities treat GDPR compliance very seriously. Even if the authorities got away, such cases make for embarassing press coverage and can threaten precarious coalitions, especially when elections are close.