Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Privacy Law

Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by panarky on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:19AM (#17196472)

> yet another moat for established companies

What if GDPR is what pushes distributed computing into the mainstream?

If GDPR makes it even harder for small fry to compete with the giants, then the small fry should change the rules.

Zero centralized servers, zero PII, no EULAs, no legaleze, only open-source P2P.

Megacorps can be GDPR-compliant with buildings full of lawyers, and the rest will be GDPR-irrelevant with no lawyers at all.

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Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by nopriorarrests on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:36AM (#17196601)

>zero PII, no EULAs, no legaleze, only open-source P2P

how that should work exactly? I mean, even if platform is P2P, you still have user id, you still have user interests, et cetera.

The only thing changed bc of P2P is that it gets much more complicated, or even impossible, to delete your account/data.

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Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by panarky on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:54PM (#17200652)

> you still have user id, you still have user interests

No _you_ don't.

Peers on the network may have this but there's no entity subject to GDPR.

So if GDPR tilts the playing field in favor of the megacorps, perhaps it also encourages anonymity and distributed networks.

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