One of the most obvious political impacts of Brexit is that the government will feel obliged to demonstrate some kind of benefit. Since real benefits are difficult—verging on impossible—to find, it seems likely the government is going to head in the direction of fabricating benefits. So - slash some regulation, present it as “freeing up business”, and ignoring the wider impact.
UK to depart from GDPR
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Re: UK to depart from GDPR
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I understand it, it currently can't be hosted in the UK anyways. As the requirement is to store the data within the EU.
I thought the data could be exported to any country whose laws offer the same level of protection.
You can store it wherever you want, so long as you're in compliance.
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#73I honestly get giggles from how unprepared they are culturally for what becoming America-like will do to them. Does anyone else? American-like but with no negotiating leverage and having burned all the bridges to the other economic unions.
48% of us realized this
This is the thing that pissed me off the most about the referendum. The result was touted as an overwhelming majority but in fact the percentages are well within the margin for error on a poll that wasn't very well defined from the outset (ie what "leave" meant was different for different people).
The only thing the EU referendum conclusively demonstrated was how easily manipulated people are by the media they consume.
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#74YIPPEE. Does this mean no more of those stupid little popups every time I see a site? HOORAY. Does it mean less absurd bureaucracy and non-jobs? GREAT. As for data privacy... does anyone seriously think that Facebook was stopped from collecting data due to GDPR?
Ah this is the best bit! Because many companies cater for a global audience, us Brits will STILL have to endure the stupid little popups AND we'll have no protection or recourse from privacy invasion! Can't wait! /s
I don't think you're right at all. The US is the dominant online market. China is second. Neither have the stupid popups, so why wouldn't the UK just get added to the list of 'places we don't need to show it'?
Have you ever tried browsing many US news sites? They block the entire EU from even seeing their content. That's how much they care about their in-GDPR users. The idea that people cater to a global audience by just implementing the EU rules for everyone is patently false. If the UK diverges, it's free revenue to just add it to the whitelist, basically.
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#75I honestly get giggles from how unprepared they are culturally for what becoming America-like will do to them. Does anyone else? American-like but with no negotiating leverage and having burned all the bridges to the other economic unions.
Who said they're becoming America-like. More like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc. like.
Not even - we will become a right wing basket case with a brand new nuclear weapons system and a failing economy and zero safeguards about those in power. This lot are bad but there is the possibility of something much much worse.
Re: UK to depart from GDPR
#76I honestly get giggles from how unprepared they are culturally for what becoming America-like will do to them. Does anyone else? American-like but with no negotiating leverage and having burned all the bridges to the other economic unions.
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Re: UK to depart from GDPR
#77To 99% of internet users, GDPR has meant nothing except extra popups, blocked access to some websites, and an additional regulatory burden. In some cases bad actors exploited GDPR for fraudulent purposes - eg. requesting a full account deletion in the event of a ban. They can then recreate the same account with the same data.
That like claiming "For 99% of consumers food safety regulations means nothing but annoying 'use by date'!" Just because the effects are not obvious to a layman, doesnt they aren't there
Thank you for the protection we've never asked for. Now, can you come and change my diapers for me ?
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#78For me the biggest flaw of GDPR that it does not distinguish between something done as a business to make money and something done non-profit, as a hobby project, etc. GDPR killed forums, etc. everything moved to Facebook groups, where people agree to whatever Facebook wants. Who will create forum for a community if one has to deal with all the bureaucracy, "right to be forgotten", data accuracy checks, data export r…
Forums died a decade ago. Everyone moved to Facebook, Reddit, Discord, etc. This is not a GDPR problem.
Re: UK to depart from GDPR
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
48% of us realized this
This is the thing that pissed me off the most about the referendum. The result was touted as an overwhelming majority but in fact the percentages are well within the margin for error on a poll that wasn't very well defined from the outset (ie what "leave" meant was different for different people). The only thing the EU referendum conclusively demonstrated was how easily manipulated people are by the media they consum…
I see angry Europhobes on Twitter being responded to with "you won get over it" quite a bit these days...
Re: UK to depart from GDPR
#80GDPR 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 burden of GDPR has been dumped on the wrong people and has become so tedious to administer it's basically useless and a massive waste of time and energy.