BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Existing laws and accounting standards still take precedence over GDPR. Past invoices and accounting entries remain as they are.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> So you're saying that you are asking consent to store the phone number and email address of a client? No, I didn't say that. GDPR doesn't mean that you have to ask for consent in each and every case. If as a business you
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
It means that in that case I have to provide my client with a data processing agreement and handle data accordingly. Basically, it means that what's been best practice all along is made explicit. So, in most case this doesn't aff
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
First, I'm responsible for handling my clients' data, such as their email addresses or phone numbers. It doesn't matter that they're business customers rather than consumers. GDPR still applies. Secondly, though not alwa
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I run a small consulting business. It's been quite some effort but for my business so far it's been a net positive because it made me rethink, clarify and streamline my processes.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
That's a gross generalization. In fact, the parent explained quite well why GDPR can become a problem for smaller companies. It's not the law itself that matters in this case but the clients' (quite possibly wrong) interpreta
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I have no exact numbers but from personal experience I can tell you that it's by no means just seniors and "moms" but people of all age brackets who use this. Then again, privacy-mindedness isn't necessarily related to a
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Yes, the Weimar Republic and its runaway inflation problem is often cited as a cause of this. However, most people who actually lived through that are dead by now. I find it baffling that for some reason this still seems to be such a deeply
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
While many people claim to be using cash for privacy reasons the same people often are absolutely fine with using a digital loyalty card called Payback (I'm not making this up. This is the actual name ...), which is widely used in Germ
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Perhaps, you haven't worked in an environment where that kind of information is regularly and pointlessly compiled into Excel sheets. Tesults certainly isn’t changing the world as in “SpaceX is changing the world.” but I suppose they h
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The EU Commission's very own website deserves an honourable mention at least. Last time I looked (just a few days ago) it was the epitome of "What you're not allowed to do anymore according to GDPR.": Tracking and other
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
If safety and sanitation regulations were as heavy-handed as GDPR there probably wouldn't be too many restaurants. The point of GDPR indeed is elevating privacy as a priority. Good intent however doesn't automatically entail that
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
1.) That "if outsourcing, check compliance" part isn't trivial, though. Some suppliers still don't provide data processing agreements. For example, as of now it seems like I won't be able to use DocuSign for digital
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Yes, common law and civil law systems have been converging to some extent. In common law systems you have increasing reliance on statutory law while civil law systems increasingly make use of precedents. Still, the basic principles remain.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
There's certainly no need to panic. The article doesn't address that apart from mindless hysteria there are some very real issues with GDPR. It doesn't have to of course because as the title suggests it's more about disp
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> that this reasonableness is not encoded in law. This is the main issue with this regulation in my opinion. Some of the recent statements by EU officials on that matter verge on absolutist notions of law: "Don't worry. Authori
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
What you're describing is the way common law works. Most European jurisdictions work under a civil law system.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> "conversations that only happen because your desk is next to mine" problem I think part of a solution to that problem is more deliberate communication. Water cooler talk, informal office conversations, whatever you want to c
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Please see my previous comments on this matter and the additional links provided in those comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Usually, they find you ;-) I’m only slightly kidding here. This is a very crowded market and if you can avoid working with them it’s probably best to do so (for pretty much the same reasons as is avoiding working with Upwork). There are a f
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
There are middlemen not unlike recruiters but for freelancers. They serve the same purpose as sites like Upwork but at a smaller scale.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Yes, it absolutely can be. If you hire a designer, a lawyer, a builder, you probably don't do so via middlemen like Upwork. That hiring freelancers, freelance developers in particular, often works differently is an outlier, not the nor
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
These questions aren't my own but rather examples of questions small business owners have been routinely - and legitimately - asking in discussion forums for months now. For the most part, these aren't tech-savvy people but entrep
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The problem with these laws is that while they're mainly targeted at large corporations - because frankly that's all regulators and politicians usually know or care about - small companies bear the brunt of complying with them rig
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I agree that the intent behind that regulation is good and yes, as an ethically sound company you shouldn't have to worry about it. However, the implementation of these laws so far has been less than stellar, to say the least. There&#x
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The new regulation isn't just about opt-in and data deletion. Those are just the aspects consumers typically will be aware of. In addition to that a company also needs to: - have data processing agreements with every 3rd party that pro
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Usually, I'd have said yes. The local startup community is great. There's certainly not as much venture capital available as in Silicon Valley but first not every startup needs extensive funding and secondly the availability of VC
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
This in turn might point to the services not being cut alongside the right dimensions, that is they might be cut horizontally rather than vertically. Microservices lend themselves to being used in conjunction with domain-driven design. A si
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> With microservices, though, you can make changes one service at a time. That's the main property that sets microservices apart from mere SOAs: Microservices reduce the risk of change. With properly architected microservices a sing

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