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Warlord
I'm an attorney. A patent attorney, even. I've been programming since I was in the 7th grade. I've coded in BASIC, Pascal, C, C++, COBOL, Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, PC assembler, and lord knows how many others I just can't remember offhand. I still code a little here and there. I've run an Ubuntu box for my kids' Minecraft servers, I hand-write my web sites in HTML using vi, blah, blah, you get the idea, I understand technology pretty well.
The GDPR is the right policy concept, but the utterly wrong implementation. It's trash. We all like the consumer-facing parts we see, but compliance is impossible and the fines are outrageously disproportionate. The EU commission tasked with enforcing it can't even comply with it. It's grossly unfair and unreasonable. If the United States passed a law like this, the EU would be (justifiably) howling for months about economic imperialism. The GDPR rings of a regulation written by a bright-eyed high school student who has never had to wade through a real-world commercial environment of any substance.
The GDPR is the right policy concept, but the utterly wrong implementation. It's trash. We all like the consumer-facing parts we see, but compliance is impossible and the fines are outrageously disproportionate. The EU commission tasked with enforcing it can't even comply with it. It's grossly unfair and unreasonable. If the United States passed a law like this, the EU would be (justifiably) howling for months about economic imperialism. The GDPR rings of a regulation written by a bright-eyed high school student who has never had to wade through a real-world commercial environment of any substance.