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This is an independent website, not part of the official University budget. You can’t just round up some CS students and have them produce a website compliant
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
This is an independent website, not part of the official University budget.
You can’t just round up some CS students and have them produce a website compliant with international law for free.
This involves legal teams, contracted developers, and constrained budgets that are already stretched thin on operating in their core business. It’s not reasonable to demand they invest tens of thousands of dollars (or demand equivalent free labor from CS students and lawyers) to serve a population that almost never visits the site.
- bubblethink 5y agoHow are they producing a website compliant with local laws then ? What if they inadvertently end up violating DMCA ? What happens then ? The answer to that is one can be reasonably sure that they aren't doing anything stupid or malicious. It's the same with GDPR. Don't use trackers, cookies, adware etc., none of which are necessary for a college newspaper. This is a simple technical problem.
- throw10920 5y ago> You can’t just round up some CS students and have them produce a website compliant with international law for free. But the issue isn't "international law" in the general case (which, indeed, would be very hard), it's the specific case of the GDPR, the solution to which (for this particular site, which only serves static content) is mind-numbingly trivial: don't collect personal data, don't set cookies. That's it. That's all you have to do.
- CodesInChaos 5y agoYou're only talking about the technial part. But there are non technical requirements as well: In many cases you need to name a person responsible for data protection, a privacy policy, a list of services you're sharing data with,... Though I'm not sure if a local US newspaper even needs to be compliant, since it doesn't target EU residents and thus might be out of scope.