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It's not like the EU so far has been home to a significant tech industry anyway. With GDPR, a notoriously convoluted set of rules and regulations that fails to
by BjoernKW 5y ago
It's not like the EU so far has been home to a significant tech industry anyway.
With GDPR, a notoriously convoluted set of rules and regulations that fails to achieve what it set out to, yet at the same time pesters SMEs while allowing large corporations with legal departments to continue to do as they please in terms of privacy, the EU has made sure it stays that way.
Laws like this one are just the icing on the cake that is the fundamental misunderstanding by most MEPs of how technology and the technology business works, not to mention the very real downsides such laws have regarding privacy.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 5y agoWhats convoluted about GDPR?
- BjoernKW 5y agoSee these articles, for example: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/25/17395210/gdpr-spam-funny-memes https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/25/17395210/gdp... https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-data-protection-regulation-eu https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-dat... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/gdpr-europe-data-protection.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/gdpr-europe-data-... Becoming GDPR-compliant is no small task if you take it seriously.