Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by rorykoehler on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:19AM
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I think being responsible for negligence in security practices and GDPR are not the same. GDPR is overreach. There is a saner middle ground, for example in Australia new laws coming in mean executives can go to prison for the negligence in your example. That makes more sense as it doesn't invalidate 90% of standard tools processes in technical marketing for example.
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Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by IanCal on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:00AM
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I think it's interesting you find a fine to be overreach but imprisonment not.
> That makes more sense as it doesn't invalidate 90% of standard tools processes in technical marketing for example.
Can you explain in more detail?
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by rorykoehler on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:34AM
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I'm not talking about the fine/prison. The overreach is that they dictate how you have to handle data. In Australia you are only obligied not to get hacked and are trusted to figure it out for yourself. In Europe they have all this right to be forgotten BS and reams of compulsory opt ins etc etc
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by IanCal on Thursday May 03, 2018 @02:00AM
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I don't really have a problem with requiring consent to work with personal data. Right to be forgotten is restricted and I can't think of obvious cases within the restrictions here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... that I disagree with.
Stronger restrictions on what data you can hold without good reason or consent means that inevitable breaches become less important.