‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance is falling short

Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:19PM (#17420563)

> before GDPR we had so many problems with companies mishandling data that "a bit overblown" is not something that everyone would agree with

GDPR should have had a minimum revenue threshold for the bulk of its requirements. Enforcement should have also been centralized in a single EU enforcer. A simple process for obtaining non-compulsory affirmative compliance certificates, for businesses at or below the revenue threshold, would have also been nice.

> I find it hard to believe that it's going to get much worse than that with GDPR

I see Facebook and Google gaining market share and failing to change their behavior. In addition, Europe is no longer a market one launches in simultaneously with the U.S. and Asia for most foreign businesses.

This whole episode is deeply frustrating as I'm strongly anti-Facebook and pro-privacy rights. The degree to which the EU turned an opportunity to lead into a wholesale boondoggle is jaw-dropping.

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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by lotu on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:02AM (#17422318)

I’ve had discussions with people working in ads at Google that are basically, “so GDPR is the EU’s attempt to kill off all our competition and presently entrench us in the marketplace.”

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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by bmer on Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:42PM (#17422228)

> In addition, Europe is no longer a market one launches in simultaneously with the U.S. and Asia for most foreign businesses.

Since that's a broad statement, would you care to back it up?

> I see Facebook and Google gaining market share and failing to change their behavior. In addition, Europe is no longer a market one launches in simultaneously with the U.S. and Asia for most foreign businesses.

Are you saying that Facebook and Google are not GDPR compliant, and that furthermore, the EU doesn't care that they are not GDPR compliant?

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Re:‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance... by Matticus_Rex on Friday June 29, 2018 @01:17AM (#17422566)

Facebook is dramatically noncompliant, and people on my privacy professionals listserv have been debating parts of Google. I assume the EU cares, but it's also a massive fight to pick, and Facebook and Google are well-suited to handling it.

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