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Typical nature of doing business in Europe. Arbitrary laws, borne in good faith but implemented so badly and erratically that everyone is forced to ignore them.
by bb101 6y ago
Typical nature of doing business in Europe. Arbitrary laws, borne in good faith but implemented so badly and erratically that everyone is forced to ignore them. The same laws are then wielded as a baton against whomever the state wishes to punish at the time.
- freeone3000 6y agoWhat makes you forced to ignore them? By default, your business is likely in compliance. It's only once you start collecting user data that you have to be careful with it.
- aenario 6y agoThe GDPR is actually pretty simple : "say what you do, do what you say, let the user say no" The clusterfuck comes from every single ad-based business toeing the line in a giant tug of war between PR, legal & revenue. If google had simply written : " Hey, we have a tracker on almost every website in the world, which we will use to monitor all your browsing habits and share with [this list of 100 other business]. This tracking pay for the app you are about to use. [Continue Tracking] [No thanks] " They would be fine (legally, not financially), instead they use some king of weird pop-up with no meaning, and they now have to pay the price.
- mancerayder 6y ago...or don't collect user data against people's will. Apparently, that's too arbitrary and oppressive to comply with? Sad world we live in if that's true.
- alwayseasy 6y agoEuropean companies in the USA or Asia are exposed to the same arbitrary laws that favor local players. They only are wielded at major strategic actors rather than small startups though.