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GDPR works rather well, if given enough teeth. At the very least, nobody in the EU and the UK is quite so reckless with personal data as they used to be, which
by selfhoster11 5y ago
GDPR works rather well, if given enough teeth. At the very least, nobody in the EU and the UK is quite so reckless with personal data as they used to be, which is the point. The infinite consent dialogs... I'd argue they were an oversight during the drafting process, and that nobody expected companies to go full-idiot just to keep processing and collecting data, rather than just comply with the law in the simplest possible way - which is to just stop collecting guest visitor data.
- shadowgovt 5y ago> nobody expected companies to go full-idiot just to keep processing and collecting data, rather than just comply with the law in the simplest possible way But there was over a decade of frameworks built on the old "collect everything and use it later" model. By default, even Apache collects enough information to be considered a GDPR violation. Throwing a dialog up and putting one cookie on the end-user's machine was the simplest possible way; the alternative was a mass audit of all dependencies. (... and if anyone drafting the law didn't realize this, it would strongly indicate they didn't pull enough industry people into the process to draft a good law).