Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud...
by gerdesj on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:34PM
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You haven't actually read any of it have you?
A) It covers behaviour towards the citizens (ie passport carrying members) of the EU. It basically says: "please do not be evil" - OK it says a lot more but I think you get the idea.
B) It does cover a lot of ground but it is written in pretty accessible language for such a large and complex subject.
C) The possible maximum penalties are set at a level that will not destroy a serial transgressor but should hopefully deter anyone from becoming such a beast in the first place.
Overall, GDPR is really a manifesto for how people should be treated in the burgeoning data economy. I still find it hard to understand how such a reasonable and farsighted set of regs came to be designed in the first place. As a citizen of the UK, at least I am reasonably certain that the GDPR will stay on the local statute books post Brexit because to contemplate otherwise is economic suicide.
A) It covers behaviour towards the citizens (ie passport carrying members) of the EU. It basically says: "please do not be evil" - OK it says a lot more but I think you get the idea.
B) It does cover a lot of ground but it is written in pretty accessible language for such a large and complex subject.
C) The possible maximum penalties are set at a level that will not destroy a serial transgressor but should hopefully deter anyone from becoming such a beast in the first place.
Overall, GDPR is really a manifesto for how people should be treated in the burgeoning data economy. I still find it hard to understand how such a reasonable and farsighted set of regs came to be designed in the first place. As a citizen of the UK, at least I am reasonably certain that the GDPR will stay on the local statute books post Brexit because to contemplate otherwise is economic suicide.