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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by pilsetnieks on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:57PM (#17159704)
Look at the cavalier attitude people have with their data until now. Do you really think starting today every one of them is going to start caring and requesting full deletes everywhere?

Maybe a percentage will be better educated, and actually request data deletion here and there, sometimes but I don't thing anything is going to massively change in general customer behavior. The GDPR just gives the means to those who really want to control their data (which were there before, by the way, just not really enforced. Now that there's a number figure to the possible fine, now is everyone paying attention.)

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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by tomatotomato37 on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:08PM (#17159963)
The problem isn't the odd paranoid submitting a delete request once a month, it's when some influential person publicly requests a delete for whatever outrage is going on that day and causes his 10k followers to do the same
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Re:GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloud... by onion2k on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:03AM (#17160618)
You're suggesting that a business should be able ignore the privacy concerns of its users because they're inconvenient. That is decidedly worrying. If a startup can't afford to run ethically then it shouldn't really be in business.
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