Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by bpodgursky on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:39PM (#21019869)

Our EU employees could not file expense reports for months, because our expense management software (FROSCH or something) could not figure out GDPR compliance.

Soooo I kinda suspect you're talking with absolutely no first-hand experience.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by dmitriid on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:54PM (#21020026)

I’ve now been at three large multinational companies who have gone through GDPR process. It’s not easy or simple for an established company, but it’s not impossible.

Additionally:

- before GDPR most EU countries already had similar laws (e.g. data protection laws in Sweden). Sometimes for decades

- GDPR gave two years to become compliant

All in all everyone had two to twenty years to become compliant. Those who didn’t? I personally wouldn’t give two shits about them.

Your expense management software? Well, you company chose it. It looks like your company are responsible for making sure that the software you use is GDPR compliant. Someone at your company and at FROSCH screwed up and now you blame GDPR for the screw-up.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by t_dunks on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:16PM (#21020278)

This is a terrible line of reasoning. GDPR came AFTER the expense software, so blaming the company for not forwardly thinking about an non-existant regulation is ridiculous.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by dmitriid on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:56AM (#21023881)

You had two years. Plenty of time to figure this out.

Also: is this your line of reasoning? It’s really weak. To take it to extremes: “we’re still using asbestos and lead pipes because the legislation was nonexistent when we started using them”.

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