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Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by wyldfire on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:04AM (#17188228)
> If your startup to unseat Salesforce requires doing tricky or infelicitous shit with my personal data, I don't want you to be able to operate, full stop.

Yeah, I'm onboard (like I said, I think the intent of the law is good) -- but regulatory compliance is expensive and in general creating a SaaS business is not. Compliance is more than just doing the right thing, BTW, it's creating processes, audits, attorneys, etc to prove that you're doing the right thing. One of SFDC's risks is that today a competitor could probably arrive and eat up their business by emulating their business model and undercutting their costs. They're very well placed to establish or enhance their existing regulatory compliance team(s).

Re:USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc ... by Kalium on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @11:36AM (#17188544)
There's a tendency to think of well-intentioned regulations that serve whatever purpose someone wishes to advance as cheaply and easily complied with by an honest actor.

This tends to not be maximally congruent with reality.