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No, you just have to follow the regulations. It's no "war on US companies" or anything like that. They wrote some good law (Albeit it has a few weaknesses), and
by JCWasmx86 3y ago
No, you just have to follow the regulations. It's no "war on US companies" or anything like that. They wrote some good law (Albeit it has a few weaknesses), and enforce it now. And if you want to do business in the EU, you have to follow them.
I would say it's more a problem of the US companies, if they can't do business without violating EU regulations.
- nceqs3 3y agoHave you read how vague the laws are. It's all designed to extract fines from US companies.
- troupo 3y agoNo. Its all designed against the predators that modern companies have become.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThe TL:DR of GDPR is "just don't drack your users without their consent". Why is that difficult for US corporations to follow? Even '90s web was by default GDPR complaint.
- nceqs3 3y agoYes, the huge and profitable 90s web.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago"Won't someone please think of the big-tech ad profits?" - You Why should the web's profitability or lack thereof, be my problem as a user? That the SV elite can't buy platinum plating on their yachts? Are they sharing that wealth with me? Then, good riddance! My privacy is more important than your wealth. There's been profitable SW companies and careers before user tracking became the norm. Remember when Windows came without any ads and blogs and forums had generic non-targeted ads? Same how the big tobacco industry got kneecapped for our own health and the greater good, a similar tech industry correction is long overdue. Is this the world you want for your kids?
- bigbillheck 3y agoPlenty of people were making money off the internet in the 90s.
- johndhi 3y agoI've implemented gdpr. It's much more than that.
- bee_rider 3y agoHow so?
- esperent 3y agoI've also implemented GDPR. Of course it's complex, it's a continent wide law, how could it not be complicated? But I still think that "don't track your users without their informed consent" is a good summary of the intention of the law. And I would also say that's it's only really complex to implement if you were already tracking your users and now you need to change everything. If you weren't doing that, you'd probably find it remarkably easy to implement.
- midasuni 3y agoDon’t set cookies. Don’t capture Personal data. You’re 90% there.
- cccbbbaaa 3y agoOh, no, there's more. You must list all kinds of data processing you perform, find the appropriate legal basis (and data retention duration, etc.), make sure you only gather data you need (data minimization), know to who you transfer data, make your services secure by default, monitor for unauthorized access, and tell affected people when there is a breach. Perhaps make a risk assessment, but it depends on the processing you do. Yes, it's work. But quite frankly, I'm cool with a law that expects anyone who processes personal data to secure their service, to properly inform people, and holds them accountable.
- midasuni 3y agoSo you are choosing to capture personal data.
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- mrweasel 3y agoIf we're being a bit generous it's easier for the EU to make these rules, because it has very little impact on it's own companies. The majority of the large companies being impacted by these laws are US based. Similarly you could argue that the companies are US based, simply because the US have pretty terrible privacy rules which makes it easy for them to get started with a fair amount of users/targets.
- JohnFen 3y ago> you could argue that the companies are US based, simply because the US have pretty terrible privacy rules I do argue this. The state of privacy rules in the US is abominable.