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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by nickpp on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:30AM (#16656599)
Not to Europe, I am afraid. Europe is a bureaucratic shit-show with a big-brother more than willing to regulate what you say, how you say it, how to listen, how to remember and forget and soon how to think...

Just watching the GDPR mess makes you understand Brexit.

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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by StreamBright on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:48AM (#16656685)
What? GDPR is for avoiding Cambridge Analytica/Facebook disatasters, Equifax breaches and other cases when companies collect data that they dont need store it like there is no tomorrow and at the end dont give a shit when people get screwed over by a 3rd party. Great Britain has the worst laws in the EU when it comes to internet regulations. People are jailed for funny videos while the GHCQ hacks corporations, and they have the most invasive security laws at all.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Socialist

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/217478-uk-introduces-law...

What are you talking about???

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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by BurningFrog on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:02PM (#16659439)
> GDPR is for avoiding Cambridge Analytica/Facebook disasters

And SESTA/FOSTA is for avoiding human trafficking.

Complex far reaching laws often don't end up having the result they were said to be intended for.

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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by wyager on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:17AM (#16657175)
> People are jailed for funny videos

It’s not like most of the mainland European countries are better in this regard. Few of them have strong legal protections for free expression, and some of them (like Germany) have explicit political censorship laws just like the UK.

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Re:With SESTA/FOSTA, lawmakers failed to separate good inten... by a_humean on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:47AM (#16656999)
The UK has made all appearances of going forward with GDPR principles independently of the EU, and as with almost everything in terms of EU regulations, we will likely have to comply with GDPR whether we stay inside or outside of the EU formal structures especially given its extra-territorial enforcement. The UK already has a lot of data protection legislation (more so than the US), and is making no indication of wishing to repeal.

GDPR will be a pain for a lot of businesses, but seems to be well designed to protect citizens by to reducing abuses of surveillance by private companies like those in the news right now with Facebook.

GDPR is the appropriate response to decades of giving industry an opportunity to self regulate its data collection practices (the "cookie law" was a warning shot ignored by industry), which has evidently spectacularly failed should you open any broadsheet newspaper this morning.

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