GDPR: Don't Panic

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Post by grabeh » Fri, May 18, 2018, 7:59 AM UTC

GDPR: Don't Panic
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#2

Post by maxk42 » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:09 AM UTC

How does this affect people who aren't based in Europe?

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Post by halflings » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

maxk42 wrote: post #2

How does this affect people who aren't based in Europe?

I think many (most?) companies will implement these privacy policies across all of their users as it can be hard to determine whether a user is in the EU or not... so indirectly, this law might mean that everybody will finally have strong privacy guarantees (at least when it comes to companies of a meaningful size).

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Post by merinowool » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:13 AM UTC

This is just an author wishlist and not the reality. I especially find the "clearing house" fantasy amusing. How he thinks this house of bureaucrats will be able to judge that John Does complaint has any merit?

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Post by StreamBright » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:14 AM UTC

Exactly. People try to explain to me how it is impossible to comply and usually it turns out that it would be easy. I think the problem most of time that people misunderstanding the requirements or not reading GDPR (not even TLDR versions).

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Post by merinowool » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:14 AM UTC

maxk42 wrote: post #2

How does this affect people who aren't based in Europe?

How do you check if someone is an EU resident?

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Post by Malarkey73 » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:15 AM UTC

Hear hear...

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Post by merinowool » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:18 AM UTC

StreamBright wrote: post #5

Exactly. People try to explain to me how it is impossible to comply and usually it turns out that it would be easy. I think the problem most of time that people misunderstanding the requirements or not reading GDPR (not even TLDR versions).

It is easy if they believe particular person's interpretation. But that doesn't mean they are right. People have huge problems with interpreting written word if it is not written without a room for interpretation and if you add to the mix bureaucrats that have targets to meet you'll see it will not be easy at all.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:18 AM UTC

merinowool wrote: post #4

This is just an author wishlist and not the reality. I especially find the "clearing house" fantasy amusing. How he thinks this house of bureaucrats will be able to judge that John Does complaint has any merit?

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Post by willvarfar » Fri, May 18, 2018, 8:19 AM UTC

> If you’re Mark Zuckerberg however I would definitely advise not to ignore this, however the chances of Mark reading this blog post are nil.

As this is top of HN, perhaps there is a good chance he will read this because of the his FB staff who read this and can't resist telling him? :)