Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
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Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#2Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#3Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
I just love having internet laws written by people who can't use a computer without help. Makes so much sense...
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#4Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
What specifically do you take exception to with regard to GDPR/EU Internet laws? Having hands-on experience with compliance, I find GDPR to be quite reasonable - if anything, I'd say it's overly lax with regards to deletion of data that's not visible to the user (i.e. logs, 'shadow profiles', etc.).
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#5Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
I just love having internet laws written by people who can't use a computer without help. Makes so much sense...
Do you actually know any MEP? The younger generations are less stupid than you might think.
Politics is a slow game, the people who grew up with Windows 95 are only now starting to get elected.
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#6It's funny, I was listening to the Hanselminutes, and in a recent episode, his guest (a lawyer) was underlining that the US partially created the current situation where current its companies are at loss in front of GDPR: by refusing to take the lead on data privacy issues, the US didn't have a framework for privacy laws, and couldn't negotiate a convergence of laws with the EU (I'm paraphrasing).
https://www.hanselminutes.com/647/how-gdpr-is-affecting-the-...
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#7Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
I just love having internet laws written by people who can't use a computer without help. Makes so much sense...
Is something wrong with the data protections laws that apply to medical data? Those could be expanded for all private data.
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#8Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
That's acute, considering there's at least a couple of major competitors in every area of Chinese internet economy, unlike the Google, Facebook, YouTube and Amazon de-facto monopoly.
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#9Data protection we do need indeed, but the EU is the last entity I want to be emulating on internet laws, except maybe China.
I just love having internet laws written by people who can't use a computer without help. Makes so much sense...
Like a 35 year old with a degree in information and communications technology law?
Seems like he might possibly have encountered a computer or two given his special interests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Philipp_Albrecht
As well as GDPR, which is one of the better IT related laws, he has sensible views on mass surveillance.
Re: Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just love having internet laws written by people who can't use a computer without help. Makes so much sense...
Do you actually know any MEP? The younger generations are less stupid than you might think. Politics is a slow game, the people who grew up with Windows 95 are only now starting to get elected.
In the current legislature, there is one former software programmer MEP and a Linus's uncle, who is not a programmer but knows a bit about software.
There's also Julia Reda, but she is really just a filesharer and a politician.