Do you really think it is easy to be much smarter than law makers and lawyers when it comes to laws?
There is an intersection here, but basically this - in my mind - isn't about bad laws but about big businesses fighting for their lives (or at least the lives of whole branches in their organizations) against these laws.
They'll do most things they'll come up with and think they can get away with: misrepresent, plead, beg, threaten to leave, willfully misunderstand even very clear laws etc as long as their lawyers and business people think the risk/reward ratio is favorable.
GDPR isn't that hard, technically.
It just gets extremely hard to comply with without letting go of abusive but highly lucrative business practices.
From what I have seen, when the government gets away with stuff - imminent domain, police corruption, etc., it’s a lot more detrimental than my not being able to side load.
As far as the GDPR not being “hard”. It’s 11 chapters with 99 sections.
> As far as the GDPR not being “hard”. It’s 11 chapters with 99 sections.
Yet, the guiding principles are clear as day, just like the ten commandments. (Don't collect personal data without consent, store it responsibly, allow users to introspect data about themselves and remove it and you shouldn't need to worry.[1])
And it also only becomes a real problem when someone wants to get away with breaking both the spirit and the wording of the law.
[1]: And yes, I'm aware that this is mostly incompatible with the practice of hoovering up all you can get, selling it to everyone who wants to buy and generally abusing it for fun and profit in every conceivable way, but that isn't the fault of the law but a problem that companies who habe grown addicted to now antiquated business models have to brought on themselves, isn't it?
There is an intersection here, but basically this - in my mind - isn't about bad laws but about big businesses fighting for their lives (or at least the lives of whole branches in their organizations) against these laws.
They'll do most things they'll come up with and think they can get away with: misrepresent, plead, beg, threaten to leave, willfully misunderstand even very clear laws etc as long as their lawyers and business people think the risk/reward ratio is favorable.
GDPR isn't that hard, technically.
It just gets extremely hard to comply with without letting go of abusive but highly lucrative business practices.
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