We are one of the largest large format printers in the US, but our online business does not intentionally market to the EU or accept payments in Euros, so while I did a risk assessment for management, we concluded that we could ignore it.
Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what industry is the company in, and are you in Europe (either physically, or do you have a significant European market)?
We're in fintech. And we're not in Europe, but we're about to start a big project targeted towards European users.
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#23we don't even use personal data we just need aggregated usage metrics but google analytics was extremely convenient to collect those. under gdpr we will need to waste lot of time moving event collecting into some other in house solution like pwiki and make sure data gets aggregated and deleted properly.
not a load of work, but we have to pause some business development opportunity so that we have hands to put on this.
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#24My product collects limited number of personal information and in theory it has always been compliant. Only thing I have doubt about is AdSense. I have disabled personalized ads, but I have no idea if that is compliant. Also working on data portability, so users can export their data. (Never got a request for that though) If revenue from ads will go down I will be considering closing the business. I don't feel comfor…
Just curious, what does your business do?
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#25One-man shop that sells desktop software. I made a few changes to my privacy policy and called it good.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
First, I'm responsible for handling my clients' data, such as their email addresses or phone numbers. It doesn't matter that they're business customers rather than consumers. GDPR still applies. Secondly, though not always the case, I might have to process their respective customers' data in some way in order to do my job (by having access to a production database, for example). So, yes, GDPR absolutely does apply to…
Can you please share how GDPR affects the second workflow? I'm curious, as I've performed similar work.
It means that in that case I have to provide my client with a data processing agreement and handle data accordingly.
Basically, it means that what's been best practice all along is made explicit. So, in most case this doesn't affect the actual workflow all that much.
However, in the past occasionally clients could be quite liberal in handing out access to their production data. GDPR definitely has raised awareness that this isn't something to be taken lightly.
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#27My favourite is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/8m078i/gdpr_well_p...
They're actually not hurt by doing this: their business model is selling you a pdf report in exchange for money. The transaction handling is literally only reason to touch any personal data.
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#28Not at all. I'm working in Germany. The GDPR is basically the same as the Datenschutzgesetzt, which is the German law.
The only difference is that we will have higher fine if we don't comply. And we have had an external Data Protection Officer for a long time already.
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#29the biggest impact is all the navel-gazing time we have spent trying to decipher what _is_ personal data and what are our obligations to our customer's and to their user. The actual work has been the easy part. We will never get back all the lost hours spent on debate, clarification, re-clarification, non-answers, vague-answers, more debate.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what industry is the company in, and are you in Europe (either physically, or do you have a significant European market)?
We're in fintech. And we're not in Europe, but we're about to start a big project targeted towards European users.
Wow. That's a pretty interesting attitude to take. The consensus here among the M&A crowd is that either fintech, medtech or social media will be the verticals where one or more examples will be made. Best to hope none of your users complains to regulators.