Europe is coming for Big Tech. Biden's victory won't change that

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

I've worked as a GDPR consultant and I can tell you that most business don't even notice it, be they small or large. Just write some generalized guidelines, slap a few disclaimers onto your website, and you're good to go.

While it's correct that GDPR does nothing to stop spammers, it does provide a chilling effect against the worst abuses of Big Tech, since all it takes to slap them with a vast fine for their egregious and easily provable offenses is one trigger-happy bureaucrat in just one EU country.

Europe is over-regulated in general, sure, but not every regulation is a crippling burden like some in this thread like to imagine. Americans would sure kill for some regulations to reign in the Big Tech right now, wouldn't they?

That said, GDPR does create some severely hypocritical situations. For example, in the Netherlands, you must obtain consent to send someone a newsletter, and just assuming that they consent isn't enough under GDPR, but at the same time they have insane organ "donation" laws, so the Dutch government can take any dead person's organs and assume that they gave their consent, unless they explicitly banned it beforehand. Talk about double standards.

 

[Oberrheiner]

Doesn't not answering gdpr requests leave you open to a lawsuit ?
I suppose if you're a small company and your "clients" make requests all the time that's going to be a lot of overhead.

 

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

If you were just ignoring data requests it would be a violation that your national GDPR authority could warn and then fine you for, sure, but there are all sorts of clauses regarding what constitutes reasonable access to data, and the company may charge users for excessive requests. So you can't just spam someone with data requests and get a payday.

I don't like the EU, its awful cucking, and its retarded tyrannical rules about exact shapes of cucumbers and maximum wattage of vacuum cleaners, but I really don't see the point in complaining about GDPR at the time when it's obvious that Big Tech badly needs some regulations.

 

[Oberrheiner]

Oh I wasn't complaining, that was pure curiosity.