Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR

Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:09PM (#19996524)

Spirit is subjective and letter is objective. It is easy to follow objectively defined rules but impossible to follow subjectively defined rules.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by anoncake on Thursday May 23, 2019 @07:07PM (#19996921)

I'm sorry that you find it impossible to follow "subjectively defined rules". Fortunately, most people have no issues doing that.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:58PM (#19998353)

Huh, so you prefer rule by law over rule of law? Most people don't prefer that.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by anoncake on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:48AM (#19999692)

The difference between rule of law and rule by law is that rule of law is primarily about the spirit of the law while rule by law is what you want.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by seanmcdirmid on Friday May 24, 2019 @12:47PM (#20003297)

> about the spirit of the law while rule by law is what you want.

And the difference is? Those are both very subjective.

The EU could get around this by not writing crappy laws, but I guess this is why we have courts.

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Re:Google faces first investigation by its European lead aut... by anoncake on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:41PM (#20004680)

> And the difference is? Those are both very subjective.

Compared to what is the letter of the law subjective? Pure math?

> The EU could get around this by not writing crappy laws, but I guess this is why we have courts.

People not making mistakes and having infinite foresight would solve so many problems. Probably not the one of natural language being fuzzy, though.

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