On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 07:22 +0700, Konstantin Boyandin via Gnupg-users wrote: > I believe this subject is way off the mailing list, but just my 5 cents. > > 1. GDPR, as any other bloated, convoluted, written in inhuman juridical > language law, mostly benefits two kinds of people: lawyers and > government-related officials. It incurs a lot of ado and expenses, gives > vast grounds for power abuse and so on and so forth.
It also benefits third kind of people: new companies that specialize in GDPR busywork. > As a side effect, it somewhat helps ordinary people to control the usage > of their personal data. Since data lifespan on the Net is hardly > controllable in whole, the abuse potential of GDPR is limitless. Cheer > the politicians for this excellent masterpiece of legislation. 'Helps' is a big word. Any company sufficiently evil to abuse your personal data will continue to do so, and ignore any requests to the contrary. > As many such laws (the closest example of similarly inadequate law is > Russian Federal Law #152, "On personal data") are introduced worldwide, > they will strike a lethal blow to majority of small and medium > businesses, and cripple the base of normal human communication. > Exactly. Some companies just close, some live hoping their non- compliance won't be caught. And by 'non-compliance', I'm not talking about personal data abuse, just not meeting the nonsense. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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