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The EU feels to me like one of the few forces for good in the world at the moment
Pretty naieve view to accept an effectively unaccountable body of such incredible size. Almost every policy is without a voter mandate.
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As a EU citizen I like my personal data protected. I left facebook and all other networks except Twitter and usually do not give data for any coupons in shops. GDPR is a mess not from the goal but the implementation. Currently no one knows how to implement GDPR correctly - e.g. how to exchange business cards, how to store information from sales leads etc. Compare this with PCI compliance (which is about CC data prote…
> Currently no one knows how to implement GDPR correctly - e.g. how to exchange business cards, how to store information from sales leads etc. The only time I've seen it be a problem for people is when they are playing fast and loose with people's data. I mean, exchanging business cards is (I would suggest) in invitation to start a conversation. I'm not personally worried about that. It's definitely not an invitation…
The EU feels to me like one of the few forces for good in the world at the moment
Pretty naieve view to accept an effectively unaccountable body of such incredible size. Almost every policy is without a voter mandate.
Do you get a vote over antitrust regulations enacted by your own government?
You usually vote a party which might (or not) have a high-level guidelines over a few select policies, but otherwise trust them to make the best decision based on how their political view matches with yours.
You elect EU parliament member the same way, and you are free to vote otherwise if you do not like their work (and yes, the actual effect of your individual vote is statistically irrelevant, just as the vote for your own government).
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In Germany we say that the EU has replaced the battleground with the negotiation table. That's what it's got the Nobel peace prize for and I think it deserved it.
I don't think there was any prospect of war between the EU countries while the USSR was around, it seems folly to pin peace to an institution when it was a greater enemy that actually united us.
That's small money for the Google. Last year they gave Google €4.34bn fine and in year 2017 they gave Google €2.42bn fine.
Unlikely: google has a 2017 revenue of 109.65 Billion US dollars. that's up to 5 % (conversion rates guessed) of it's total REVENUE. This will hurt their profits even more. A fine of this magnitude really makes the difference between funding a new product / moonshot or not I figure.
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It's a very small cost that all companies should already be able to handle if they're to be trusted with personal data.
It's absolutely not a small cost. It cost the last startup I worked for around two weeks of development time, plus in many cases it prevents us (or adds massive restrictions) on collecting contact information from leads. It has certainly affected the bottom line of companies like Facebook and Google, but they can afford to take the hit, not all startups can. I'm not really disagree that companies "should" do it. But…
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It applies to everyone who wants to serve EU customers. As for startups: depending on what kind of personal data you are collecting, being GDPR complicit shouldn't take more than a day. If it takes longer you are building a business around personal data, and I think you should know your stuff (not just GDPR, but also what kind of data you are collecting and why).
> being GDPR complicit shouldn't take more than a day. either you're overly optimistic, or you have some 100x rock star doing the impl. because it took over 1 year to implement all of the GDPR required features for me, and we don't even store that much private data!
How long it takes obviously depends on your data - but also on how important privacy and security is for you already. In my case, privacy was already important, so there wasn't much to do.
Unless you were in charge of GDPR compliance for an enterprise-size company, I don't know how you could possibly take a year about it, even if you had previously not cared a jot about your user's data?
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I don't define surveillance capitalism as "good for the world".
I suggest that anybody downvoting this read this[1] article for a surprisingly comprehensive overview of how Google et al are ruining democracy and (mostly-)free society as they shift our economy from the traditional forms of capitalism that were built on mass-production, finance, etc into ^surveillance capitalism^ based on omnipresent surveillance and behavioral manipulation. The social, political, and economic dama…
Former intelligence agents have gotten into business intelligence as well engaged in legal surveillance work to predict trends just doing things like counting cars in factory lots from public spaces to analyse worker demand and thus production and sales - surveillance and capitalism are bridged by being in the same reality and a legal system where everything not forbidden is permitted.