Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’
Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60263799
Europe's most famous technology law, the GDPR, is next on the hit list as the European Union pushes ahead with its regulatory killing spree to slash laws it reckons are weighing down its businesses.
The European Commission plans to present a proposal to cut back the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR for short, in the next couple of weeks. Slashing regulation is a key focus for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as part of an attempt to make businesses in Europe more competitive with rivals in the United States, China and elsewhere.
Ban privacy invasive business practices instead of putting the burden on citizens to opt in/opt out. This is about rights of a European citizen not to be constantly under surveillance, not about consumers rights to sign away our rights in a contract.
So dumbing it down then? If privacy and security is built into your product and you're not using people's data for nefarious purposes its very easy to comply with.
What?!? Please no! Can someone explain to me how this will help the businesses, because I don't see the downsides from GDPR?
they'll be able to use our data in capitalist pig mode
Stay one step ahead of the enemies and protect your privacy now, fellow Europeans.
It's super easy to be GDPR compliant. It just costs money.
Especially if youre actively making it much more difficult to implement than is necessary!
In theory you just need to have a way for people to contact you, like an email address. And then when you get an email you just need to handle their data according to the GDPR rules.
I have a website with user data and I'm perfectly GDPR compliant, just by having an email address available for contact and manually deleting their data if they ask for it.
Cool, money is more important than freedom anyway./s
Europe needs to follow the USian example. Shining city on a hill and all that. Get rid of all of your regulations and protections and Europe will be as great again as America! 🤡
I'm not European and even I despise von der Leyen. She's one of the most cynical people on Earth.
Not surprising, since she was a big figure in the German conservative party. They're all terrible human beings
GDPR is a good goal, but the implementation is hell. There has to be a way to make well intentioned policies not turn into the nightmare fuel that it inevitably always turns into.
Implementation is easy. It requires respect for human beings though.
It my personal experience I found it all extremely convoluted... And I like gdpr
Well, maybe they'll get rid of the cookies banners /s.
Cookie banners are completely unnecessary as long as websites only use cookies for technically necessary purposes (e.g. login). The problem is that a lot of websites want to sell your data to hundreds or thousands of other companies. So yeah, we could cut back a lot of red tape there if we just outright banned that sale of data completely.
A problem is that some sites that don't need cookie banners use them anyway due to a poor understanding of the law and excess of caution.
Cookie banners are not mandated by GDPR. It's an unrelated piece of law.
Too bad :-(