GDPR articles seem to be getting some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: "Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?" For a recent project I read (and translated to plain english) [1] every single article in the GDPR legislation and for our purposes it can be summed up as: "Treat user data like names and emails as if they were credit card numbers" AKA: be paranoid about keeping them, encrypt th…
Honestly, the best thing to do if you don’t have a high percentage of EU users/customers is to simply block EU IPs. First it was the completely useless cookie notifications, now it’s GDPR, and nobody knows what the next thing will be - we only know that there will be a next thing (there always is), and that it too will be costly and burdensome to comply with. Unless you derive a significant percentage of your revenue…
A lot of us who admire what the EU has the courage to do - and wish that the US had half that courage - would rather disappear from everything but European websites. What many US corporates have done, and are doing, is rotten to the core. It is demonstrably destroying the internet that so many of us spent time bringing to life, and had so much hope for.
I suspect that if someone with some balls and power suggested corraling all US trackers and data brokers - along with companies trying to turn the net into a shopping mall - into a single domain outside of which they could not operate - most Americans would applaud. The EU has done some of what it could, and cheers to them for having the courage to serve their citizens. Wish I was among them.