The idea that the EU thinks they have the power to tell me how to run my software legitimately make me angry. Go screw yourself the EU. You don't have that power.
@valleyforge, could you elaborate?
@cnx The EU will fine foreign companies which violate their data protection laws
@valleyforge, that sounds like a good thing to me? At least it helped slow down the tracking shitshow.
@cnx Because my software is run in the US. I have no control over who uses it
@valleyforge, software violating EU data protection law does not give me a good impression, but usually outside of the EU countries just block sites that do not comply. You could do the same by blocking IPs from the EU, or comply with the local laws. I don’t know if you have heard, but some laws are made to protect the consumers, not the corporations.
@cnx You cannot expect to be able to tell people in other countries what to do any more than the government of north korea does
That’s a very US thing to say, @valleyforge. Of course governments can tell the people who do harm to their citizens to fuck right off. That doesn’t seem to stop the US military from bombing anywhere with oil but luckily most companies are less powerful.
If you did even a tiny bit of research, you'd know it almost exclusively protects corporations for practical purposes. Raising the bar of entry always favours the existing players and helps prevent new competition from either trying or surviving.
@valleyforge
I don’t understand, how comes unethical practices suddenly become favorable if it’s done by new competition, @leyonhjelm?
While I acknowledge that e.g. GDPR does not fully protect EU citizens from being tracked and surveilled online, ironing out the majority of violation is a net positive to user privacy. And it’s not like data collection is independently run by small and medium businesses, most use tracking technologies by Facebook and Google.
If a company does business with US citizens, @valleyforge, I fail to see how it needn’t comply with the local laws.