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‚Meanwhile one of the architects of the GDPR, German MEP Axel Voss, last week called for the regulation to be updated to take into account developments such as blockchain technology...’ What does that have to do with personal data? Sounds like keyword stuffing
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Are you in the EU? I'm a developer in the EU and that is patently not true. Developers have to have mechanisms in place to delete gdpr data when required and not store data that's not required for you goals. In my experience gdpr puts a real and meaningful curb on the strong impetus to gather everything and sell it.
> Developers have to have mechanisms in place to delete gdpr data when required and not store data that's not required for you goals Purely anecdote, but zero companies I know in Germany, Italy or France are doing this. (The ones in Switzerland are.) There is a cosmetic fix that produces an email so there is something to show a regulator if they come knocking. The logic being investing anything more than that is a cr…
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I have never observed a non-techie do anything other than blindly click the call to action (i.e. agree to everything). The entire scheme seems sneakily designed to actually encourage users to give more and explicit consent, avoiding the situation where consent was a grey area. It seems to have been spun to a great extent.
My biggest annoyance lately is having to go set my cookie preferences on every. single. site. If only there was some sort of browser standard that I could set in the preferences there and sites would just obey it....
Konqueror even had "confirm cookies" as default for a while back then.
Good riddance. GDPR is an insane, Byzantine mess of legalese, which maps poorly onto reality.
Have you even read it? The GDPR is a quite straightforward piece of legislation.
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In the spirit of keeping these comments high quality I'd love engage with you about this. Why do you think that? I'm actually a dual citizen of the UK and Australia and I have to say my experience is that neither country is anything like the US. (Beware when assuming you know who you're talking to on the internet ;) )
I grew up in the city in Australia. Once when I crossed the road (as a pedestrian) at a red light, a police officer on the other side of the street stopped me and gave me a warning for jaywalking. Before I had walked, I had looked both ways and deemed it safe; there was no traffic and no other pedestrians waiting. (In my mind: I am just a person on planet Earth, trying to get from position A to position B, less than…
GDPR should have been implemented as a standard that browser vendors should implement. e.g. ``` window.getPersonalDataPreferences() ``` It should only prompt the user to submit their preferences if no preferences were detected, or a specific permission is required to allow certain features. People may argue that everyone will just turn everything off everywhere and forget about it, and I would argue "so what?". The b…
The GDPR applies when any processing of any data is done regardless of context.
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> Developers have to have mechanisms in place to delete gdpr data when required and not store data that's not required for you goals Purely anecdote, but zero companies I know in Germany, Italy or France are doing this. (The ones in Switzerland are.) There is a cosmetic fix that produces an email so there is something to show a regulator if they come knocking. The logic being investing anything more than that is a cr…
The companies in France in worked for all did substantial work to comply with GDPR.
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The vote was held the same day as Glastonbury, just after university terms ended. So the students (18-24) that could vote had to be: A) living with parents during studies, or registered to vote at parents place while not living there full time (illegal) — or! Live full time on their own, which is rarely and B) to not go to Glastonbury, one of the largest festivals in the UK for young adults.
If someone chose to go to a leisure activity instead of voting in a very important referendum that supposedly decided the future of the nation, then their vote was not worth much in the first place.
Hindsight being what it is tells us this was foolish, it that’s how it was.
Things it didn't fix: Data leaks.
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I'm 24 and voted for brexit. In fact I campaigned for it and would do so again. It's really a very poor form to resort to the "dumb old racists voted for brexit hurr".
OK, so the problem is that I find it basically impossible to understand how a well-informed and rational person could come to the conclusions you've come to. The EU isn't perfect, but you'll struggle to argue that it hasn't expanded peace, prosperity and human rights across the continent. This is motherhood-and-apple-pie stuff. Arguments in favour of Brexit thus tend to boil down to immigration and 'sovereignty'. The…