The GDPR is one of the regulations that actually seems to help on a daily basis.
23andMe is going bankrupt and now a good part of the US is having their DNA sold to the highest bidder.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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Stay one step ahead of the enemies and protect your privacy now, fellow Europeans.
Which oligarchs are pushing for this...
Shit like this doesn't just happen on their own.
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! 🤡
The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these "cutbacks" will be the adequate reforms however.
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.
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
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.
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 :-(
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
When my nephew was young, it was impossible for him to go to bed on time. Just impossible! He tried nothing and it didn't help! Please tell me that's not what's happening to the GDPR.
I have a blocklist just for that.