Supporting GDPR easily doubles the cost of many software projects and introduces unclear liability to a huge number of organizations who cannot afford that.
It’s an incredible pain to basically every organization I know of, including in situations that you really wouldn’t expect it to (one example I recently heard: “organization cannot integrate sensitive external complaints about attendees into the admission process of their events because complaints would constitute private information which they then would need to share with the attendees the complaints are about”).
Never thought of that particular issue, and I grant that I basically haven’t thought at all about how this proposal could be abused by people trying to stymie any system they don’t like.
Yeah in retrospect using the GDPR in the TL;DR blurb was a pretty bad unforced error. I was more using it as evidence that such proposals can be passed. However, I think I didn’t really justify why regulation is needed beyond “governments might want to do it, and consumers might want it”, which you correctly point out is insufficient given the amount of regulatory cost these kinds of things inevitably bring.
Need to figure out if this half baked idea merits more time in the oven...
Supporting GDPR easily doubles the cost of many software projects and introduces unclear liability to a huge number of organizations who cannot afford that.
It’s an incredible pain to basically every organization I know of, including in situations that you really wouldn’t expect it to (one example I recently heard: “organization cannot integrate sensitive external complaints about attendees into the admission process of their events because complaints would constitute private information which they then would need to share with the attendees the complaints are about”).
Never thought of that particular issue, and I grant that I basically haven’t thought at all about how this proposal could be abused by people trying to stymie any system they don’t like. Yeah in retrospect using the GDPR in the TL;DR blurb was a pretty bad unforced error. I was more using it as evidence that such proposals can be passed. However, I think I didn’t really justify why regulation is needed beyond “governments might want to do it, and consumers might want it”, which you correctly point out is insufficient given the amount of regulatory cost these kinds of things inevitably bring. Need to figure out if this half baked idea merits more time in the oven...