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EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR (noyb.eu)

submitted 6 days ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Consent to use of your data for AI training is non-optional! This is progress, we have declared! You don't want to stand in the way of progress, do you?

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Tech bros are just the loudest, most financially successful branch of US geeks. Most of the geeks I know think GDPR is largely a good thing.

The biggest issue is that when launched, GDPR was taken up by a bunch of consulting companies who told you x, y, and z changes were necessary. Maybe half their advice was correct, but they made a whole lot of money telling you about it.

Repeat this story for SOX and PCI compliance. Both good things (although PCI compliance could mostly go away with some architectural changes to US payment processing), but some very undeserving contractors made bank off them.

[–] schakalsynthetc@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

Repeat this story for SOX and PCI compliance

And HIPAA.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

There was a ton of panic here in Sweden too. Specifically I heard of entities like councils and public boards like unemployment who were braced for a ton of data deletion requests that had to be fixed within 24 hours or something like otherwise huge legal fees. AFAIK nothing like that happened.