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The GDPR does not apply if it is for personal use or for a hobby only. I don’t know how the structure of this forum is set up, but this can be a good reason to run such forums on your personal name.
Guy shuts down forum, goes through the nightmare letter dissecting each part as "good question" or "you should have this already" or "easy one". So what was his issue anyway?
He points out that he's dealing with several of these requests. Even if you're doing everything correctly in terms of privacy etc., responding to these requests can still be time consuming.
People asking to exercise their rights on their own private information are not trolls.
In this case, you are making work for a person that doesn't monetize the platform you're using. It was service that was offered in good faith, and is now, because of this useless request, not going to be available. Instead they are being forwarded to a service that does monetize their service.
OP could have waited for the regulator's letter before doing anything.
I"m not really a fan of the GDPR. I don't think it really protects privacy. I think it just uses the power of the EU, a fairly big and strong organization, to intimidate the rest of the world to comply with laws that it really shouldn't have legal jurisdiction to enforce globally. I think this is a scary precedent to set that the biggest bully on the block can de facto enforce such standards because the rest of the w…
The GDPR exists because everyone has been a dick because they know they can get away with it. By default the mentality is take take take. Now the business models built on that are being trashed. If someone keeps burgling your house they need to go to prison. Simple as. Time is up for this way of thinking. It is not difficult to be compliant. Most people don’t bother because they are drama queens or hiding what their…
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The GDPR exists because everyone has been a dick because they know they can get away with it. By default the mentality is take take take. Now the business models built on that are being trashed. If someone keeps burgling your house they need to go to prison. Simple as. Time is up for this way of thinking. It is not difficult to be compliant. Most people don’t bother because they are drama queens or hiding what their…
Saying that people need to be shoved off a cliff is not elevating your position. In fact, these kind of statements are exactly what make me concerned about regulations and laws. One has already made your mind up about a group of people and now it's time to execute.
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The GDPR exists because everyone has been a dick because they know they can get away with it. By default the mentality is take take take. Now the business models built on that are being trashed. If someone keeps burgling your house they need to go to prison. Simple as. Time is up for this way of thinking. It is not difficult to be compliant. Most people don’t bother because they are drama queens or hiding what their…
Saying that people need to be shoved off a cliff is not elevating your position. In fact, these kind of statements are exactly what make me concerned about regulations and laws. One has already made your mind up about a group of people and now it's time to execute.
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Saying that people need to be shoved off a cliff is not elevating your position. In fact, these kind of statements are exactly what make me concerned about regulations and laws. One has already made your mind up about a group of people and now it's time to execute.
Such is the result of tech industry overreach. Had they adopted a more moderate stance, people would not be calling for them to be pushed off the proverbial cliff.
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Some of the early results we are seeing from GDPR make one question how ‘sensible’ it really is.
Site operators who shut down their site preemptively because they don't have time to even consider their GDPR stance are not really a strong signal on how sensible the law is. In this case the operator's usage of the word troll to describe what happened is telling. Anyone can send any kind of threatening letter they want, and they are free to report you for non-compliance, but that doesn't mean any action will be tak…
No, but it is a strong signal of my critique: That the EU is a 900 pound gorilla and that is a large part of the problem here. Small operators will, in fact, be impacted by this because they don't have the resources -- including time -- to cope with this and this will cause substantial fallout. Suggesting that "The details of the law are sensible" is not a rebuttal of the cincerns I am expressing.
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... and document every instance of processing, as well as the legal basis for processing for each use of each piece of data, and how you decided that legal basis (and if you used "legitimate interest," you need to do a LIA -- the template I use is several pages before you enter the information). Then you have to negotiate different DPA terms with a dozen clients whose privacy lawyers told them they each need a differ…
> and document every instance of processing, as well as the legal basis for processing for each use of each piece of data, and how you decided that legal basis But only if that's proportionate. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-24-gdpr/ > Taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controll…