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I like how you, with actual concrete real-world experiences you are sharing, are being downvoted by silent armchair enthusiasts who mostly just like GDPR becaus

I like how you, with actual concrete real-world experiences you are sharing, are being downvoted by silent armchair enthusiasts who mostly just like GDPR because they get the sense that it’s vaguely bad for Facebook.

KingOfCoders 5y ago
As a private citizen I like GDPR - even if Facebook will find ways around it (but I do not really care, I've left Facebook many years ago because of privacy concerns). As someone who implemented it in several companies, I don't like it because it hits smaller companies much harder than bigger ones, and because it tries to be technology agnostic it is quite fuzzy, compate to something like SOX or PCIDSS (which I also implemented as CTO). In Germany at least data protection agencies declared they will go after companies that use e.g. Mailchimp.
- tekknik 5y ago
  As both a private citizen, and one who implements it, I hate it. It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place (I don’t care what you’re doing online, never tracked, etc) that only increased the cost of business. We need more competition, not less.
  - TheManInThePub 5y ago
    > It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data breaches and private data exploited that was held for no reason). Therefore regulation was needed. > We need more competition Competition is good. A race to the bottom is not.
    - tekknik 5y ago
      Where does relaxed regulation and the reintroduction of morality into business mean a race to the bottom? It also could’ve been implemented in such a way where there were no required new positions and the gov spent tax dollars to write a greatly detailed dummies guide to GDPR, how to implement it, etc so that smaller companies without the resources would have just as much of an advantage.

KingOfCoders 5y ago

As a private citizen I like GDPR - even if Facebook will find ways around it (but I do not really care, I've left Facebook many years ago because of privacy concerns). As someone who implemented it in several companies, I don't like it because it hits smaller companies much harder than bigger ones, and because it tries to be technology agnostic it is quite fuzzy, compate to something like SOX or PCIDSS (which I also implemented as CTO). In Germany at least data protection agencies declared they will go after companies that use e.g. Mailchimp.

tekknik 5y ago
As both a private citizen, and one who implements it, I hate it. It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place (I don’t care what you’re doing online, never tracked, etc) that only increased the cost of business. We need more competition, not less.
- TheManInThePub 5y ago
  > It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data breaches and private data exploited that was held for no reason). Therefore regulation was needed. > We need more competition Competition is good. A race to the bottom is not.
  - tekknik 5y ago
    Where does relaxed regulation and the reintroduction of morality into business mean a race to the bottom? It also could’ve been implemented in such a way where there were no required new positions and the gov spent tax dollars to write a greatly detailed dummies guide to GDPR, how to implement it, etc so that smaller companies without the resources would have just as much of an advantage.