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Reasonable is a common term in laws, see for example the "reasonable person test" which is widespread in US civil law. Laws are not written like electrical code
by Macha 4y ago
Reasonable is a common term in laws, see for example the "reasonable person test" which is widespread in US civil law. Laws are not written like electrical codes in the most part because such specific laws either explicitly enumerate what is permissible (which is more ok for something like "acceptable methods of wiring a house" than "acceptable uses of data") or are rendered obsolete by the first thing the law writers didn't foresee ("Oh, the law bans tracking with cookies? Well we just have a server side database for UA+IP address combinations, so we don't need to comply" - in fact the first EU attempt at privacy law arguably failed for this reason)
- Kalium 4y agoIt is, but generally reasonableness comes with useful legal context to help you understand what it means. In the context of GDPR? I was left guessing what a regulator in Brussels might consider reasonable when their path to career advancement might run through my employer. Coupled with being uncertain what various national regulators (or empowered industry bodies) might add in, as they were allowed to do so until quite literally the last second. It left a person with no good way of judging what might be considered reasonable, only nervous paranoia. It was a distinctly unpleasant experience and one I was left thinking was both anticipated and avoidable.