Matticus_Rex

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811.
by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
If this is the bridge that gets my brain to last until brain emulation happens, I'm sooooo down.
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
This is a key development in my personal plan for Futurama-style immortality. Glass jar futures, anyone?
813.
by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
I've had the dubious privilege of being around many college students, and in that experience the fact that they say something is true about markets or academia has very little relationship to whether it is actually true.
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
Pet peeve: "A bitcoin has no intrinsic value." Okay, sure. Along with everything else. Things can be useful, and they can have moral value, but the whole concept of value relies on someone doing a valuation. Nothing has value in a
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
They'll be required to do this after May 25th regardless of when you deleted the account. All personal information is in scope of the law, not just personal information of people who were customers after the enforcement date.
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
1. Most things fall into this category: Lack of clarity in the law (and a remaining lack of clarity from WP29 and the Commission) about dozens of issues. The Privacy Professional community has been proactive about trying to get info on a lo
817.
by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
It depends on what part of the GDPR you're against. I'm generally in favor of a lot of the GDPR's goals, but the execution is pretty clumsy and a few of the provisions are at best useless and impose unnecessary costs.
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
Even if you think it's worth the cost, you can't deny that there are still ongoing costs; doing something a less efficient way bears a cost, and more auditing, documentation, and overhead bears a cost.
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
One example would be that consumers are literally no longer allowed to give their data in exchange for a service, download, etc. Companies can still offer these things and ask for the data, but the GDPR specifically disallows companies from
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
We're a US-based remote company with employees in four countries and contractors in a few others. I have a sense that some of our unique needs make things more complicated for us than for many others, but my other SMB friends seem to b
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
Reasons it has cost my small company hundreds of thousands of dollars: Hundreds/thousands of hours of time (over a thousand for sure by May 25th, and it doesn't stop there) of very expensive employees to understand what compliance
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by Matticus_Rex 9y ago
Just one data point, from me as a DPO-equivalent: My company is squarely in the SMB camp at 21 employees and single-digit millions in revenue across three business lines. GDPR compliance has already cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars