Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
by fmblwntr on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:55PM
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To be honest, I can't imagine a situation in which I would need a new law in order to have follow age of consent laws. Like, you are really complaining that if a user says they're underage, you have to treat them as such? Or that if you operate in multiple countries you have to look up the relevant laws? All of this seems like a basic requirement, and I'm honestly shocked that it was never an issue before.
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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop
by timothycaldwell on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:57PM
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We already comply with age of consent laws. GDPR changes the law and adds lots of edge cases around users transitioning from valid user -> invalid user as I described above.
I'm not complaining. I'm just saying it's not basic or simple. I often see the attitude that, "Oh that should be easy" when someone hasn't implemented something.
This essay covers it well: Reality has a surprising amount of detail https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16184255
It reminds me of people who have taken the programming 101 class telling me, creating Amazon is easy, its just a webpage. Or I could completely run Twitter off of just 4 machines.