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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by jamiequint on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:44PM (#18079025)
Ironically, in a way similar to most legislation, GDPR will mostly benefit the largest tech companies at the expense of small startups that may eventually compete with them. Google, FB, et al have endless amounts of resources to comply with and litigate legislation like GDPR, whereas it's a substantial cost to smaller companies to do the same.
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by blub on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:00PM (#18079689)
The point of the law is to protect EU citizens, not support business.

Lamenting about the fate of small businesses is getting tiresome, especially when said businesses are one dime a dozen startups whose ultimate goal on their wonderful journey is to get sold and make the founders rich.

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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by diminoten on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:47PM (#18080911)
The problem with this thought is that small businesses help EU citizens, and making it harder for the businesses to do that means the EU citizens are indeed being harmed.

All that assuming GDPR actually does harm businesses, which is definitely debatable. I just don't think "fuck businesses" is the right stance to take, because it doesn't account for the benefits businesses provide to their customers.

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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by bepotts on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:48PM (#18080555)
Na, it was meant to reign in a group of companies the European establishment doesn't like under the guise of "EU citizens privacy".

It's as transparent as Republicans wanting to speak to Google about "bias".

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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by icebraining on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:48PM (#18079059)
Which is why the GDPR has a reduced level of obligations for companies under 250 employees (see article 30).
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by yeahforsureman on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:07PM (#18079238)
Not really. You're talking about an exception to only one obligation (record-keeping). And even that is relevant only where the processing is "not occasional".
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by icebraining on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:33PM (#18079454)
A small company is also less likely to need a DPO.
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by lotu on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:45PM (#18080101)
When Instagram was bought by Facebook I think it had 13 employees. Would they not of had to comply with GDPR then?
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by icebraining on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:14PM (#18081311)
Everyone has to comply with the GDPR, it's just that bigger companies have extra requirements to fulfill.
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by vxNsr on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:43AM (#18082505)
Similarly, Whatsapp had 55 at the time of the purchase.
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Re:Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:58PM (#18079141)
Ironically, the only companies who talk about how GDPR will help big companies and hurt small ones is... big companies. (It was uttered by a Googler in Congress today!) Of course, this makes no sense, why would all these big tech companies be campaigning against a law that would allegedly help them.

It's because it's a lie.

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