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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>You must point to the laws violated. E.g. Schmidt made a false statement to the California Air Resources Board under the Clean Air Act. >Trial in the court of opinion and mob lynching is not compatible with the Western tenements of l
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I really think the EU guaranteed US tech dominance with this law. How many months of work did the EU just add to getting out an MVP? How are EU startups even going to do AB testing to improve their product without collecting user data?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR Very few businesses actually sell data the way you are imagining and if all GDPR did was ban that business model I would be happy with the existence o
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Do you think a US business that has no intention of ever operating in the EU cares about European fines?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>Obviously from what? Are you a GDPR compliance expert? You don't need to be a GDPR compliance expert to know that the costs of implementing GDPR are huge and I doubt any GDPR experts actually even exist today.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> The EU/EEA is the largest market in the world Please don't believe your own propaganda. EU/EEA revenue is a fraction of US revenue for all large multinationals. Small businesses probably make even less from the EU.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>My comparison is simply to show the standard laissez faire talking point of "oh, regulation exists just to protect incumbent market players" as bullshit: regulations exist to protect consumers from negligence and misbehaviour
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>It's called Data Protection Officer and you only need to appoint one if processing personal data is your core business, which is reasonable. Not commenting on the validity of this statement but it's interesting how I can tell
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
By the US and 2.8B is a fraction of what they deserved to be fined. All VW execs should be in prison for the rest of their lives for what they have done.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>You can collect email addresses still, so long as you have a legitimate reason to, you seek consent, you store them securely and remove them if consent is withdrawn. These are things that you should be doing anyway! Even if it's an
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
You do know that GDPR is not the first regulation that has ever been written correct? There is a huge body of economic literature already dedicated to the subject.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>I was thinking about getting in to the car market but all these pesky requirements that I sell a car with airbags and seatbelts and fuel efficiency compliance are just there to protect existing incumbents. I think by going to cars to pr
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Can you share with the rest of hacker news why you think there will be a crash within the next 5 to 10 years?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>I challenge you to find just one example of land that has been repurposed from parking spaces into something else, because of Bird or some other scooter company. These companies have existed for how long? The point is that if more and m
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> the driver of NVidia profits for the last few years had been crypto coin mining. Do you have a source for this statement? Crypto currency demand is not the "driver" of Nvidia profits.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I wish I could report comments like these. I can't even respond because your comment doesn't even say anything.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>But i can play your game too. Look : Why don't you try taking my comment in the context of the entire thread and practicing a little critical thinking? You are not playing my game and your comment is a rehash of the parent post. Co
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Generally I have found that people who compare the US with dictatorships such as China and Russia and conflate the actions of the two have been A. brainwashed by decades of anti-US propaganda (the source of which is generally Russia or the
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>You have a few hundred customers and maybe 10 of those are in Europe. You need to worry and you should probably just refund them and block them from your service.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I think Europeans really overestimate how much revenue is derived from European customers. European CPMs are a fraction of American CPMs. Europeans purchase a fraction of the products that Americans do.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>If they are able to corelate that data back to your account, and you account contains information that allows them to link it back to individual you, then absolutely. It's amazing that people actually think this type of request is
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
The US does not own or control US companies.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
Go look up what CPMs are for the EU. Having your website in the EU will simply not mske you much money, why even bother?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
>That the vast majority can't afford, leaving the current status quo. is this a comment on how new housing is supposedly "luxury" housing that is only available to the richest? As someone currently living in a "luxury
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
> I give them 3-5 years max. why?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
How do you bucket users into a control and enabled group without having some way of identifying them? (usually ip address)
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I'm not arguing against consumer protection and asking for consent. I'm arguing against stupidly burdensome regulation that practically makes ads as a monetization scheme impossible.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
The distinction is that violating someone's rights is almost always unethical. Breaking the law is less so.
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
How can AB testing work without storing personally identifiable information?
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by lajhsdfkl 8y ago
I personally hate ads, I block them wherever I can and I use a vpn for any traffic I don't want associated with my name. I still understand that people trying to monetize their service is not unethical and that the world would be signi

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