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Furthermore mark your callendar as 18 of march 2019 is when UK leaves EU and GDPR wont apply anymore.
No one in government has announced a plan to repeal the GDPR from UK law.
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I don't think an argument of such kind would stand in your communication with regulators, or (especially) in courts.
This is "what will you do if the lightning strikes you" thinking. Only about less probable things.
You CANNOT, by any means, consider an IP address to be "personal data". You cannot say "I don't want my IP to lay around in a database somewhere" because ... IT IS NOT YOUR IP. An IP address is used to uniquely identify a device on a network, not a person. This device can be (and usually is) a router, a proxy, a server of some kind, a corporate computer, a public computer and so on. Not to mention the fact that a dev…
> Article 2(a) of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data must be interpreted as meaning that a dynamic IP address registered by an online media services provider when a person accesses a website that the provider makes accessible to the public constitutes personal data within the meaning of that provision, in relation to that provider, where the latter has the legal means which enable it to identify the data subject with additional data which the internet service provider has about that person. [ECLI:EU:C:2016:779]
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I didn’t write the original comment about the notebook in the park, just FYI. And your examples are not all the same. If you’re in public, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. So yeah, take all the notes about me you want. That’s entirely different from my doctor sharing my health info.
Sorry, my fault with that first comment. Then why is your doctor not allowed to share your health information but a website where you search for and read about medical conditions can collect and share what you looked up as they please? And while you personally may not have any expectations of privacy in the public, that is certainly not true in general for everyone and in every country. Here in Germany the constituti…
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>this guy sees the law and runs off without even trying to become compliant This guy quite clearly states that he doesn't have resources to become compliant, while it is too risky to make a mistake here. There are fans of GDPR on this website, who prefer to ignore the fact that the compliance has its cost, and added to that still unknown risks of practical interpretation of legislation which also have their cost. But…
GDPR compliance takes resources. I would say for a small business it takes about 1 or 2 days. Not hard work but tedious. In the end you will have around 5 documents that will show your processes, what you do to keep data save, a plan how you deal with questions from customers and regulators, that you trained your employees and that you choose your subs carefully. Essentially that's it. I am no lawyer but I am a CPO.…
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This is "what will you do if the lightning strikes you" thinking. Only about less probable things.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Do you mean “they won't catch you"?
The above statement will apply to everybody or nearly everybody (still not you).
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Nope, the buyer has to comply with american tax law. You the seller are not doing business in there.
If you make a profit in America you'd better believe that the US government wants a share of it (there are exceptions if you sign a W8BEN and ask for a tax exemption based on existing international treaties) but the default position is that you pay tax on profits made in foreign countries -- and this applies for any country in the world that has something resembling a capital gains tax. If you sell electronics that a…
If I buy something mail-order from Canada, I'm considered the importer and would have to pay duty on it, just as if I had driven a truck over the border, bought the couch over there and driven it back.
If it's something as big as a couch, chances are it's going to be held at a customs warehouse for me to pick up (after I've paid the duty).
If I need to do this on a regular basis, I'm going to hire an import/export broker or possibly go through an actual furniture importer. That's the company that's doing business in the US that owes US incomes taxes, has to comply with US consumer protection laws and any of those other regulations.
In all of these scenarios, at no time did the Canadian couch store do any business in the US, even though I, the customer doing the "buying" may have been initiating the transaction over the Internet (or phone or with a paper mail-order form) physically in the US and/or with a US credit card.
If that Canadian couch is a fire hazard, the US's recourse is to stop it at the border and not let it in (or punish the US company, only in the case of the furniture reseller), and possibly punish me, the importer, since I'm the one legally attempting to bring it into the country. AFAIK, they have no recourse against the Canadian company.
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Even in America, if a user can argue that their consent is uninformed you can still end up with a lawsuit. What's more, various states have different rules regarding that liability as well.
You're not wrong in this guy's case, especially since his software is on the App store. However, for most open-source projects, the installation process is sufficiently obtuse that you would be hard pressed to claim you were 'tricked' into installing it
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He's not in the EU.
Indeed but he head a TLD from a self-governing dependency which is implementing the GDPR: https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/data-protection-gdpr... So he wants the funky TLD from Europe but he doesn't want European law 'hassle'. Hypocritical.
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This guy is not a small business. He's just a guy, doing this for fun, it seems.
How does that defense work out for marijuana growers in the US?