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They kinda are but most EU companies just avoid it by not really collecting your data to begin with beyond what they need for service operation. At least in my

They kinda are but most EU companies just avoid it by not really collecting your data to begin with beyond what they need for service operation. At least in my experience, when I deal with a service in the EU, their privacy policy fits on a few A4s, with the important bits frontloaded and written in an easily understandable way. Even most banks don't really hide what they collect on you and they explain why they collect it. It's only foreign companies that tend to insist on massive privacy policies that border on being incomprehensible and use them to skirt the law. Seriously, just look at Googles privacy page for example - it's a single giant page that mostly just restates over and over "Google may collect info about you". It's unclear what the data is being used for, it's extremely reliant on other pages to detail what's being used and your average person has probably lost the plot by now. It's difficult to put it in any other way, but foreign companies are the ones who think they can get away with breaking the law and make it as difficult as possible to trace what they're doing with your data. European companies just tend to actually follow the law. That's why all the landmark cases are against foreign tech giants.

scyzoryk_xyz 3y ago
The boardroom can’t argue about whether or not to steal from the cookie jar when there is no cookie jar to begin with. These are the moments I’m grateful to be living in the EU. GDPR was a huge circus of blame on EU bureaucracy back when it was introduced. A lot of hate poured out that every single paper you sign now needs to have a second separate GDPR thing for you to sign. Stupid Brussels making your life more complicated! But now everyone seems to be used to it.
- personomas 3y ago
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Scarblac 3y ago
And every organization in the EU has had to deal with the fact that this is now law, and had to think what they needed to change to comply with it. All companies, but also e.g. tiny volunteer run organisations (my local scouts group asks for health insurance, medical information, allergies etc of the kids again and again for every camp they go on because they don't keep the forms around anymore for the next one like they used to) . It's probably different for organisations coming from outside the EU who get EU customers over the Internet.
- johnchristopher 3y ago
  > (my local scouts group asks for health insurance, medical information, allergies etc of the kids again and again for every camp they go on because they don't keep the forms around anymore for the next one like they used to) . A lot of people were wrongly influenced by DPD consulting wannabes on their first gig. I have seen small org burn years of contacts they could have kept or easily manage in respect with the provisions of the law.

scyzoryk_xyz 3y ago

The boardroom can’t argue about whether or not to steal from the cookie jar when there is no cookie jar to begin with. These are the moments I’m grateful to be living in the EU. GDPR was a huge circus of blame on EU bureaucracy back when it was introduced. A lot of hate poured out that every single paper you sign now needs to have a second separate GDPR thing for you to sign. Stupid Brussels making your life more complicated! But now everyone seems to be used to it.

personomas 3y ago
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Scarblac 3y ago

And every organization in the EU has had to deal with the fact that this is now law, and had to think what they needed to change to comply with it. All companies, but also e.g. tiny volunteer run organisations (my local scouts group asks for health insurance, medical information, allergies etc of the kids again and again for every camp they go on because they don't keep the forms around anymore for the next one like they used to) . It's probably different for organisations coming from outside the EU who get EU customers over the Internet.

johnchristopher 3y ago
> (my local scouts group asks for health insurance, medical information, allergies etc of the kids again and again for every camp they go on because they don't keep the forms around anymore for the next one like they used to) . A lot of people were wrongly influenced by DPD consulting wannabes on their first gig. I have seen small org burn years of contacts they could have kept or easily manage in respect with the provisions of the law.