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0 pointsmmt8y ago0 comments

Your response seems to completely ignore what I said, which had nothing to do with data. It's as if you're just making an appeal to emotion.

I keep smelling this false dichotomy: either you're complying with the GDPR or you're doing something nefarious.

Others may be arguing against the spirit of the law, the extent of the protections, the tradeoffs between data and privacy, or any of those topics actually related to data or its storage. I'm not, nor is the GP.

I'm arguing that businesses can make perfectly valid decisions regarding risk with respect to regulation that have little to do with the compliance in spirit.

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crankylinuxuser8y ago

> I keep smelling this false dichotomy: either you're complying with the GDPR or you're doing something nefarious.

It certainly doesn't appear to be a false dichotomy to me. If your company has a European presence, you will be required to follow the GDPR. But for my purposes, companies that say they will support the GDPR globally will absolutely get my business before those that do not.

And there are plenty of areas where my data is used against me. Look no further than the recent cell phone location leaks, or facebook, or google.. The time for their siphoning every last shred of data is done.

> I'm arguing that businesses can make perfectly valid decisions regarding risk with respect to regulation that have little to do with the compliance in spirit.

And I, a customer, can make a very easy choice of "If you assert that you follow the GDPR globally, I will buy from you." I think of it like California Emissions, or other 'Better than average certifying bodies'.

mmtOP8y ago

> It certainly doesn't appear to be a false dichotomy to me.

That's the problem. What you seem to be espousing is exactly "my way or the highway" (where "my way" is the GDPR) or "you're either for it or against it", the very epitome of false dichotomy.

Why not actually address the middle ground that has now been clearly explained multiple times? In what way does that non-compliance equate to nefarious conduct?

> And there are plenty of areas where my data is used against me

And here, again, is the appeal to emotion. Where's the data in this case, not those other cases?

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