Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lotus Notes system

Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by briandear on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:26PM (#17726317)

That’s not it. GDPR has made it hard for some outlets to make money in order to pay for the content you wish to read.

However, admittedly I run a variety of ad-blockers because newspapers have long abused my bandwidth with grossly inefficient advertising. But the penalties for violating GDPR are so great that it isn’t worth the risk (even if you are doing everything correctly, you still have potential international litigation expenses just to defend.)

Just curious, who should pay for the stories you read on newspaper websites?

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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by Ninn on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:30PM (#17726366)

GDPR doesn't mean that you cannot show advertisement. Just means you have to actually be responsible and not abusive as many content providers with ads are.

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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by yspeak on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:54PM (#17726636)

Whatever. You obviously have never read a regulation and tried to comply without a team of lawyers. Or never run a small business. Or have a team of lawyers (which the nyt does but still can't get it right). Or are in violation and don't know it. Way to kill the internet. Thank you EU.

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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by sctb on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:56PM (#17728910)

Please start posting civilly and substantively. We ban accounts that don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Baltimore police will pay consultant $176k to maintain Lo... by eerikkivistik on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:28PM (#17726348)

Answered another comment with the same, but just in case: I didn't make it clear enough I was poorly executing a joke.

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