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0 pointsrendall4y ago0 comments

> how will this be enforced? Will authorities go and audit the data? How will they know where to look? Etc. “Hey did you delete the data?” “Yes, we deleted it” would, indeed, be laughable.

If you're not familiar with Northern European culture, I'm quite sure the companies can expect literal inspectors in their offices expecting clear answers to where the data is and what was done with it. They will be pleasant but firm, focused and unswerving. Infractions and evasions will be carefully noted. These notes will then form the basis of further lawsuits. These people are not fucking around.

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kmlx4y ago

> If you're not familiar with Northern European culture, I'm quite sure the companies can expect literal inspectors in their offices expecting clear answers to where the data is and what was done with it.

zero chance of this ever happening.

rendallOP4y ago

What happens when, say, a restaurant does not allow inspectors to look at their operations? They get shut down or fined. Same thing.

And, no, it's not different because the tech companies are serving up bits and bytes. Same mechanism.

kmlx4y ago

restaurants provide food. serving bad food gets clients killed.

no comparison whatsoever with some websites. what you're writing about has to do with state overreach.

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dmitryminkovsky4y ago

How well-versed are they in file systems, database schemas? Will they look at source code? Will they understand it? How will they determine what data came from where?

tokai4y ago

All EU countries have a Data Protection Authority org, so yes the inspectors will have the capabilities to carry out these things.

Also this is not criminal law where someone is innocent until proven otherwise. Companies have to prove themselves that they comply with the law. Like food companies have to log cleaning to show they follow the food regulations, as one example.

rendallOP4y ago

Ah, I see that you expect a US / Southern European style revolving-door wink-and-a-nudge quid pro quo! Yep. Nope.

These people will be frighteningly competent

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0 pointsrendall4y ago0 comments

> how will this be enforced? Will authorities go and audit the data? How will they know where to look? Etc. “Hey did you delete the data?” “Yes, we deleted it” would, indeed, be laughable.

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kmlx4y ago

zero chance of this ever happening.

rendallOP4y ago

What happens when, say, a restaurant does not allow inspectors to look at their operations? They get shut down or fined. Same thing.

And, no, it's not different because the tech companies are serving up bits and bytes. Same mechanism.

kmlx4y ago

restaurants provide food. serving bad food gets clients killed.

no comparison whatsoever with some websites. what you're writing about has to do with state overreach.

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dmitryminkovsky4y ago

How well-versed are they in file systems, database schemas? Will they look at source code? Will they understand it? How will they determine what data came from where?

tokai4y ago

All EU countries have a Data Protection Authority org, so yes the inspectors will have the capabilities to carry out these things.

rendallOP4y ago

Ah, I see that you expect a US / Southern European style revolving-door wink-and-a-nudge quid pro quo! Yep. Nope.

These people will be frighteningly competent

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse