GDPR makes me wish I wasn't European. I don't understand how so many people are cheering for this when it's going to have a negative effect on the online services in the EU. It's going to lose us access to services and it's going to lose us jobs.
GDPR makes me wish I wasn't European...
Josiah James
Lucas Gray
>yes us fuck me in the ass
Henry Myers
Yeah, sure
Oliver Rogers
>it's going to lose us jobs.
So has literally every other significant piece of legislation ever. Jobs are lost when capital punishment and child pornography are illegal. It means nothing.
Austin Mitchell
It may be bad for business but it's great for consumers. Business can suck it the fuck up.
Mason Rodriguez
>organizing and retrieving personal data is easy when advertisers ask for it, but it's so hard when government or the people affected ask for it
Just leave already, Schlomo.
Connor Evans
>when it's going to have a negative effect on the online services in the EU
This is good, most online services are fucking awful and just take personal info they won't ever need. You order something to pick it up in person and they require you to give them your address. Why? So they can know where you live? And even if they don't require your address to complete the order they still ask your address in the store because they need to fill out a form. I'm glad this shit is going to end.
The only real consequence of GDPR is that service providers will have to be much more careful with the data they obtain from their customers, which may or may not impact, postively or negatively, the quality of service. We'll see. Having some protection laws in place won't hurt, though. Fairly sure we can all survive without most of the services we use only for convenience.
>it's going to lose us jobs.
if anything it created more jobs, there's huge demand for information security people and GDPR experts. Companies are finally hiring people to do auditing etc.
Lucas Moore
But when something hurts business it also causes job loss.
Capital punishment and CP aren't sectors of the future. Technology is. Automation is going to require a skilled work force in computers.
There's other stuff in the GDPR too. For example, say you have a website and the way you make money off of the website is through targeted advertising. To do targeted advertising you need to use data. The user can consent to this data use and it's fine, but if they decline this data use then you can't serve them targeted ads anymore. Your income from that person drops to zero. What's worse is that the GDPR requires you to offer the full service to that person regardless whether they consent to the data use or not. If your service uses server-time then every person who declines to consent loses you money.
>if anything it created more jobs, there's huge demand for information security people and GDPR experts. Companies are finally hiring people to do auditing etc.
For now, yes, but this is a barrier to entry to the market. You need a higher up front cost to be able to afford a data security officer, which means that there will be less innovation and less new ideas being tried. Services like Google, reddit, Jow Forums all grew out from these fairly small ideas. And when you have less innovation you'll have less jobs in the sector as well.
Wyatt Allen
Stop mining data, Schlomo. Or having a job involving data mining.
Nathan Parker
Fucking shill.
EU always cared more about the typical person and their privacy than the rest of the world. Now all that happens is that you need fucking explicit permission to do anything or get fucked with a fine.