Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules

Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by jan_Inkepa on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:20AM (#28968784)

I shrunk down the interactive (with server-side or external functionality, like third-party comment-boxes) features my sites a lot because of being worried about GDPR, basically killing a small community and having a direct negative effect on users. The overhead/worry is real, even if as a consumer I'm a big fan of it. The toolchain/conventions may eventually catch up so that things are GDPR-compliant by default, but the downsides are still very palpable.

[ And even with all of those cutbacks, I'm still not really compliant on all my sites... (legacy software/not knowing what exactly my data server is logging/etc.) ]

But, as a direct answer to your question: I don't think many things in principle are impossible with the current privacy laws. But that doesn't mean it's not having a chilling effect.

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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by basisword on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:34AM (#28969460)

Although I understand your worry about not being compliant, from my understanding it’s unwarranted. The intent of any enforcement action is not punitive but to enforce compliance. In other words small companies will be told “please comply” and given a chance to comply. It’s only if they refuse that action such as fines is taken. Maybe this has changed but at least when I was studying this a few years ago this seemed to be the case.

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