Lord wrote:DarkDragon wrote:Lord wrote:DarkDragon wrote:Lord wrote:The grace period ended in may 2018. GPRD was already over one year an applicable law.
The now upcoming problems only show how lazy everyone was in respect to the new law,
because they had a grace period.
Never heard of GDPR before then. In which newspaper did you read about it two years ago? What do you need to pay to whom to get information which you need?
I read this in the german magazin c't months ago.
Right now I'm on holidays, so I cant' verify this.
But here is a Link (in german):
https://www.sage.com/de-de/blog/wann-tr ... -in-kraft/
That is months ago, but that is when I also heard about it and too late. It was announced 2 years ago and I haven't read about it then.
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18 o3 23 month are also month ago.
Yes, but even if you know about it 18 or 23 months ago, no lawyer will know about it, yet. You have to get a lawyer, you cannot do it yourself, completely. And when lawyers finally know about it, you go to them and they have no time until 1 month after the date.
Lord wrote:There was enough time to react.
There is an old saying in Germany: "Unwissenhheit schützt vor Strafe nicht.",
Deepl translates to: "ignorance does not protect against punishment".
Here in Germany we have exactly the same saying. Still, how would you cover all laws as a sole proprietorship? You have no chance in getting all the information at the right time. I personally watch the local (German) law. I do not watch the European law, because in 99% the EU just recommends the local laws to do something and then it takes some time until they really do it. They usually do not force all countries to agree in one law at a real point in time.
Lord wrote:It's always the lazyness which yields words like "I didn't see...", "I didn't hear...",
"I didn't know...", ....
The Dollars-signs in the eyes sometimes filter out the important things.
Protecting personal rights is more important than making money!
I'm usually on your side, but as a reader of such information on a companies website, I'd like to be able to understand what they write. I do not want to read privacy policies which are 100% overcomplicated by stating every little detail. For a user of a website it is just important to be able to agree or decline the contract to collect information and to see what information is collected. I do not want to read which fucking paragraph is used where and why and whatsoever. This is just another lawyer's method to punish small sole proprietorships and to encourage large monopols.
Most founders are not your "dollar-sign-in-eye" people. They are just as simple as you. And the more they increase the difficulty to found a company, the less ideas will be realized and the more large monopols and oligopols will benefit from it. I for my point of view always think new ideas are better than being afraid of stolen information.
Many privacy activists are somewhat blinded by just repeating what some expert has said years ago over and over again without distinguishing the single situations. I even think the lobbyists are actively using them to earn more money. They combine laws, such that the privacy activists are happy and monopols benefit from it such that the lobbyists get their money.
Without money, you'll get not food and you'll eventually starve. Loosing your information maybe leads to death, but not every time. In London everyone is watched since decades and there has been
almost no serious problem with it, yet.
Btw. did you know, that if you release a
free app on Google Play or in iTunes, you'll still have to pay about 1000€ per language for each privacy policy, even if you're not doing this as a company? These costs are recurring as law changes from time to time.