The data regulation law centres on two main principles. The first is that companies need your consent to collect your data. The second is that you should be required to share only data that is necessary to make their services work.
Danny O'Brien, a director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, offered this analogy: "A birthday cake company needs your name to put on the birthday cake. If it isn't essential information, you can deny them consent to use that data and you still have to get the service."
If companies don't comply with the new rules, they can be fined up to 4 per cent of their global revenue.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 3:03
But does the birthday cake company really need to know my name? It needs to know what to write on the cake, sure, and probably a random identifier to know who ordered the cake, but not necessarily a full name and address
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Anonymous2018-05-26 3:18
Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 3:19
Is this site compatible with that law? Who do I have to report this violation to?
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Anonymous2018-05-26 3:26
>>6 1.It doesn't have accounts, so no PII 2.If it somehow stores PII, admin will delete it or starts rangebanning europe. 3.Unfortunately, GDPR also applies to EU citizens abroad, so think may not work 100%.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 3:39
I wonder how enforceable this will be. What if tech giants simply refuse to comply?
After all, tech companies are more powerful than many governments at this point. Google, Microsoft, et al can pretty much do what they want.
>>9 It's gonna be like the Great Firewall of China, but in reverse. China blocks a lot of websites. But instead of EU countries blocking websites, websites will block EU countries.
I wonder if this means Europe will have the opportunity to make its own clones of popular American apps and sites. If people in Europe can't easily go to them (without using a VPN, which is too much effort for the average user), they will search for local alternatives instead.
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Anonymous2018-05-26 4:15
>Europe will have the opportunity to make its own clones of popular American apps and sites I predict euros will starting using VPNs and proxies to continue using existing services outside GDPR domain and thought police laws. I2P/Tor/Freenet are going to be really popular soon. Also, its likely governments will try to push national alternatives to google/facebook (like Russia).
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Anonymous2018-05-26 4:34
GDPR - is one huge communist law. As they say in Russia, Stalin haven't died, but waits us all in the future
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Anonymous2018-05-26 9:20
"Data Protection Officer" sounds like something invented by SJWs, like "Microagression Management" or "Safe Space Inspestor"
>>15 >people still think startups will magically sprout in Europe to fill the hole left by american websites. >with full force of EU bureaucratic machine breathing down their neck at every step
>>19 Pedantic, to-the-letter rulecucking autism and bureaucratic tape. Nothing to do with nazis. Germany has such a prescriptive culture, where instead of unwritten etiquette(don't hotlink my files or i replace it with goatse) it demands a special law, a system of punishment and control where X is illegal unless you have a permit/license/agreement written and signed by a lawyer. Fortunately, there are sane people who keep this autistic pedantry in check and they have political influence(not the parties resisting the link tax).
Oy vey how are companies supposed to feed their poor starving children unless they datamine the shit out of their cattl- dear customers? This is antisemitism! Ban European companies for hurting our business practices.
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Anonymous2018-05-28 14:10
>>23 Large companies will adapt, since they can afford it. Smaller/medium level companies will evaluate the cost of compliance vs eurocuckoldry benefits. Reminder that a free service doesn't mean you're a customer, you're a user. If you develop open source software and some eurocucks demand compliance with some SJW law invented to favor megacorporations, like mandatory "Data Protection Officers" and compliance procedures for every data request, europe gets range banned in 5 minutes flat. Privacy is different vs "State Mandated Data Protection Racket that will bankrupt you". Enjoy your EUnternet.
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Anonymous2018-05-28 14:21
t's unclear how much effort it's taken the gaming industry to adapt to GDPR: No companies contacted by Engadget disclosed how much it cost to comply. Like other tech companies, though, they've had to understand how user data moves through their operations, adjust their permissions to explicitly ask for consent when collecting info and in some cases, appoint their own data-protection officer.
"Companies have to document their data flows, register with privacy shield, get an EU representative, set up a bunch of updated data-processing agreements, get trained on how to respond to consumer requests that include GDPR jargon, etc...," privacy lawyer Shaq Katikala wrote in a Reddit AMA last month. In his job working for law firm Morrison/Lee, he's helped shepherd companies and studios through the GDPR compliance process. "The vast majority of the GDPR work I do for clients isn't fixing terrible scandals, it's all this administrative stuff that GDPR requires." https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/26/how-gdpr-is-affecting-the-games-you-love/
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Anonymous2018-05-28 14:32
If an EU resident submits a data subject request, a company has 30 days to respond. Say a company gets one of these requests, but they still aren’t completely GDPR-compliant and literally incapable of responding. If the company fails to respond, the data subject can then file a complaint with their local regulator.
The GDPR requires the regulator to do something to enforce the law. It might not be a 4 percent fine, but they can’t just forward the complaints straight to the wastebasket. “If they get hit with 10,000 complaints in the first month, they’re going to be in trouble,” says Straight. Seventeen of 24 European regulators surveyed by Reuters earlier this month said they weren’t ready for the new law to come into effect because they didn’t yet have the funding or the legal powers to fulfill their duties.
Another GDPR provision that might strain regulatory resources is the data breach notification requirement. Companies are required to notify a relevant data protection authority within 72 hours of discovery, but what the regulator does afterward is not entirely clear. Regulators may not be ready to audit a company’s security or figure out exactly what to do to protect EU residents affected by the breach. But still, they have to do something. They might have some flexibility on how to respond, but the GDPR won’t allow them to do nothing. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-data-protection-regulation-eu
Large companies will adapt, since they can afford it
The fine is 4% of their global revenue, and companies under 250 employees are not subject to the fines, But yeah, going against the perfect anarcho-capitalist free market is antisemitism.