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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.
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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.
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.
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
Which oligarchs are pushing for this…
Shit like this doesn’t just happen on their own.
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.
Stay one step ahead of the enemies and protect your privacy now, fellow Europeans.
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.
These cutbacks are completely stupid imho. The EU is undoing decades of good work by jumping on this dumb deregulation band wagon. I guess it was always run by a bunch of neoliberals…
As someone with a lot of time spent in Europe and the US over the last 30-40 years, it seems like Europe is often happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first. I also think American music and cultural exports are spreading our cultural degeneracy around the world for a long time and Germans slurp it up. I really hope the better education system will immunize them against the worst of it, but the rise of the AfD makes me doubt.
lol.
With the current trend I feel like the neonazis AfD will put us right back to Temu-Hitler (Trump) and Putin.
I have a blocklist just for that.
