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> "too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them
by fumblebee 6y ago
> "too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them"
This is a deeply depressing take if the conclusion is to scrap GDPR. Is this true for 'data' in the general sense, or actually only true in the murky cases where there's an opportunity to use and abuse our personal data.
In my book, that implies that GDPR is working exactly as we hoped it would.
- Daho0n 6y agoI'm willing to bet that this: >The UK has the freedom to strike its own partnerships, he said, and he would announce priority countries for data adequacy agreements shortly will be an announcement that the US has adequate data protection.
- remus 6y agoThis is obviously reading the tea leaves a bit, but I didn't get the impression they are looking to scrap GDPR. It seems to me that they just want to relax things a bit so that businesses don't feel so threatened by it. Overall I think GDPR is a very positive thing, but from the government's perspective if they could keep the adequacy agreement in place with the EU while still relaxing some of the current GDPR legislation then that would be a big win for them, especially from a political point of view as it would be some much-needed validation of their brexit strategy: "Look! We have all the benefit of being in the EU [via the adequacy decision] but we get to make our own rules! Go us." I could imagine them doing something along the lines of greatly reducing the maximum fine, for example. Big fines are typically not being issued, so they likely wouldn't see it as a big loss.