Re:How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix
by tekknik on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:59PM
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As both a private citizen, and one who implements it, I hate it. It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place (I don’t care what you’re doing online, never tracked, etc) that only increased the cost of business. We need more competition, not less.
Re:How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix
by TheManInThePub on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:51PM
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> It’s increased regulation around a subject that I was not doing in the first place
Maybe you were handling personal data correctly. Very many were not (witness numerous data breaches and private data exploited that was held for no reason). Therefore regulation was needed.
> We need more competition
Competition is good. A race to the bottom is not.
Re:How the UK's online safety bill threatens Matrix
by tekknik on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @10:35AM
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Where does relaxed regulation and the reintroduction of morality into business mean a race to the bottom?
It also could’ve been implemented in such a way where there were no required new positions and the gov spent tax dollars to write a greatly detailed dummies guide to GDPR, how to implement it, etc so that smaller companies without the resources would have just as much of an advantage.
As someone who implemented it in several companies, I don't like it because it hits smaller companies much harder than bigger ones, and because it tries to be technology agnostic it is quite fuzzy, compate to something like SOX or PCIDSS (which I also implemented as CTO). In Germany at least data protection agencies declared they will go after companies that use e.g. Mailchimp.