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>>grabeh+(OP)
For those of you understandably intimidated by the GDPR regulations themselves, here's a good summary in plain English: https://blog.varonis.com/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...

The UK's ICO also has a good structured summary: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

In general I agree with the sentiments in this article. I've probably spent a total of three to four days reading around the GDPR and I don't really see what's special about this law other than it's imposing decent standards on what was in effect a wildly unregulated industry in people's personal data. If you have a broad distrust of any government activity then I suppose any new laws with "fines up to €X" might feel like "I run a small site on a Digital Ocean droplet and I'm at risk of a €2m fine out of the blue." But that doesn't make it true.

>>frereu+N2
The amount of discretion and lack of clarity in the penalties is part of the problem. It opens you up to risk based on the whims of politics and the regulators and increases uncertainty. Laws should be clear, limited, and understandable - this is not.

>>danthe+z4
In an ideal world, yes. But that leads you down a Kafkaesque hole of bureaucracy - at some point you have to stop adding detail and leave things open to interpretation. There are plenty of laws out there with fines "up to €X" and, from my limited experience, I don't think the GDPR is especially ambiguous compared to others.

>>frereu+b5
Well, lots of ends open to interpretation, and $20 mln fine - so obviously nothing to care about! Hysteria!

>>kingof+G5
Maximum possible fine for repeated worst possible violation after ignoring previous attempts at regulation and not making changes after previous smaller fines.

It's not a minimum.

>>DanBC+t6
It takes time, and real money to be compliant, and getting slow on this quite plausibly can make one a repeat offender. You can, of course, say "don't be slow then", however, when for an out-of-EU entity (be it biz, or NGO) simple math doesn't show it is worth the effort, then it makes perfect sense to stop offering services to EU. Which is a side effect of the legislation. OP apparently understands it puts GDPR in a bad light, so he says about "overreaction" in every topic related, and this post is likely comes as the response to the latest one.

>>kingof+59
> It takes time, and real money to be compliant, and getting slow on this quite plausibly can make one a repeat offender.

When I read things like this I realize how many companies are not treating user data as they should. Protecting user data should already be built into the company software and process.

Given FB revelations and additional scrutiny to Google, I see some form of this law coming to the US.

>>matwoo+km
As a user I suppose they should do whatever satisfies me, and I'm not always need a bunch of populists from EU parliament, who can't write a clear text, run to save me, making field even more favorable for big corpos at the expense of SMEs, and small non-profits in the course of action.

>Given FB revelations and additional scrutiny to Google, I see some form of this law coming to the US.

That would be good news for the EU, of course. Even before GDPR, entrepreneurs were routinely advised to incorporate in US instead, and the legislation likely added incentives for that.