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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by djhworld on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:42PM (#17157202)
I really enjoyed this quote from [1]

> I would be very wary of a company who claims this legislation is onerous. It is potentially life threatening to companies who do very shady things without your consent. That much is true. That is the entire point.

I somewhat suspect those companies hiding behind the 'oh lets just block Europe' excuse just don't want to admit the extent of what they are doing with the data.

US citizens should take note of this, because it's their data too.

[1] https://medium.com/tsengineering/the-gdpr-blog-post-9a571b13...

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by icelancer on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:04PM (#17157391)
This might be it for like a very small handful of malicious companies. More realistically they are companies who have very little market share in the EU and their attorneys are very risk-averse and tell them a simple opt-out with few billing hours creates the most ROI.

EU citizens should not be pissed off that second-order effects exist in the world. If they are, they need to take ECN 101/102 again and pay closer attention.

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by Matticus_Rex on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:31PM (#17157668)
If you don't think this legislation is onerous, you're not doing the work of implementing it. Now, in my company's case, a big enough chunk of our customers are in the EU that it was the right choice.

Thing is? We changed almost nothing about the way we processed data. Data subjects are no better off because we've spent tens of thousands of dollars complying. Whether people comply or not, the fact of the matter is that this regulation is onerous. It's onerous even if you love the intent of it, and it's onerous even if you think it's worth it.

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by ww520 on Friday May 25, 2018 @05:51PM (#17158318)
That is the equivalence of, "if you haven't done anything wrong, why do you need to hide your information?"
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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by orangecat on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:28PM (#17157633)
I somewhat suspect those companies hiding behind the 'oh lets just block Europe' excuse just don't want to admit the extent of what they are doing with the data.

If the cops showed up at your door asking to search your home, business, and Internet accounts without a warrant, would you let them? Why not? What are you hiding?

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