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> Clearly, nobody is afraid by it: I am getting buried insanely any time I criticize GDPR in any way. It is a thing you are not allowed to critique on HN. Not

• jchw 5y ago
  > Not if your criticisms are entirely unfounded and bordering on paranoia, no. I am not a lawyer and I do not have access to a lawyer. I can't afford it. Therefore, I have to assume that I simply do not have the expertise to understand GDPR fully. And unlike most laws, it is not a matter of "do things right and nothing will happen", and it has very vicious teeth on top of that. So from my PoV, the risk profile of GDPR is HUGE. If I'm running some pre-existing software stack written in the early 2000s, it simply doesn't have the necessary data provenance tracking that is needed to be GDPR compliant. For what it's worth, I make no money from things I run, not even on ads. Zilch. However, I've spent at least hours processing GDPR requests, and I have absolutely no idea if they are being done correctly, because I'm not a lawyer, and I do not have access to a lawyer. > What? Do you think only EU citizens have rights in the EU? I'm talking about representation in the sense of a democracy. I am part of the system in the U.S. - I can vote. I have no representation when it comes to laws made in the EU. The reverse applies too, but as far as I know there's nothing quite as scary as GDPR from the U.S. side.