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Nothing, except soon there will be annoying legalese on every website form. Just like the GDPR. Large businesses will benefit at the expense of smaller ones. La

Nothing, except soon there will be annoying legalese on every website form. Just like the GDPR. Large businesses will benefit at the expense of smaller ones. Lawyers will make more money selling these legalese templates, and sometimes when a big company doesn’t pay the right bean counter they’ll end up being investigated by regulators, and paying the state money to continue doing the same thing. But it will be celebrated as a heroic victory because “privacy good. Business bad. I want a banana.”

bengale 7y ago
The GDPR does a lot to protect user data. As someone that’s implemented stuff at a huge company for GDPR and at my startup, it was waaaay harder at the larger company. The ICO has been beyond helpful with the few questions I’ve had recently and implementation for my startup has been fairly straightforward.
- simplecomplex 7y ago
  “The GDPR does a lot to protect user data” As you proceed to state absolutely nothing. Before GDPR my information was in a bunch of databases managed by other people. After GDPR my information is in the same databases managed by the same people. Except now they have legalese stating this totally fucking obvious fact. Before GDPR if my information was hacked and used to hurt me, the business was not liable. After GDPR they still are not liable. Oh and if they violate the GDPR the state gets money, but the victims don’t. Such amazing protection of consumer data...
  - chobeat 7y ago
    Dude, GDPR's effects just began. Give it time. A sudden enforcement of GDPR would destroy too many business and so it's being enforced gradually. Still, there are beginning to discuss the complete outlaw of the real time bidding in adtech because completely incompatible with the GDPR. That means destroying bilions of dollars of businesses, so they go slow until there's enough political consensus to do so without fear of retaliative lobbying. This is not something that is done overnight.
    - DanBC 7y ago
      You know that GDPR is just a refinement of ideas that began over 20 years ago, right? The EU really isn't engaged in a three decade campaign to destroy American companies. Two nice timelines: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/legislation/history-general-data-protection-regulation_en https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/legis... https://iapp.org/resources/article/a-brief-history-of-the-general-data-protection-regulation/ https://iapp.org/resources/article/a-brief-history-of-the-ge...
      - chobeat 7y ago
        Sure I do know, but these processes take time. And don't frame EU as a singular entity, there are many interestes involved.

bengale 7y ago

The GDPR does a lot to protect user data. As someone that’s implemented stuff at a huge company for GDPR and at my startup, it was waaaay harder at the larger company. The ICO has been beyond helpful with the few questions I’ve had recently and implementation for my startup has been fairly straightforward.

simplecomplex 7y ago
“The GDPR does a lot to protect user data” As you proceed to state absolutely nothing. Before GDPR my information was in a bunch of databases managed by other people. After GDPR my information is in the same databases managed by the same people. Except now they have legalese stating this totally fucking obvious fact. Before GDPR if my information was hacked and used to hurt me, the business was not liable. After GDPR they still are not liable. Oh and if they violate the GDPR the state gets money, but the victims don’t. Such amazing protection of consumer data...
- chobeat 7y ago
  Dude, GDPR's effects just began. Give it time. A sudden enforcement of GDPR would destroy too many business and so it's being enforced gradually. Still, there are beginning to discuss the complete outlaw of the real time bidding in adtech because completely incompatible with the GDPR. That means destroying bilions of dollars of businesses, so they go slow until there's enough political consensus to do so without fear of retaliative lobbying. This is not something that is done overnight.
  - DanBC 7y ago
    You know that GDPR is just a refinement of ideas that began over 20 years ago, right? The EU really isn't engaged in a three decade campaign to destroy American companies. Two nice timelines: https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/legislation/history-general-data-protection-regulation_en https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/legis... https://iapp.org/resources/article/a-brief-history-of-the-general-data-protection-regulation/ https://iapp.org/resources/article/a-brief-history-of-the-ge...
    - chobeat 7y ago
      Sure I do know, but these processes take time. And don't frame EU as a singular entity, there are many interestes involved.