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.
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.
It’s super easy to be GDPR compliant. It just costs money.
Cool, money is more important than freedom anyway./s
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.
What?!? Please no! Can someone explain to me how this will help the businesses, because I don’t see the downsides from GDPR?
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.
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.
Well, maybe they’ll get rid of the cookies banners /s.
Cookie banners are not mandated by GDPR. It’s an unrelated piece of law.
Too bad :-(
