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by home_boi 2977 days ago
> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in. It is trying to be futureproof by leaving measures defined in terms of 'current state of technology', 'reasonable security considering the risk' and other such ambiguous terms.

1 page or 1,000 pages, most people are not in a position to accurately interpret it and understand what does or does not comply.

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They would be if they read it. Every complaint I've seen about how the law is obviously going to be misapplied is called out specifically in the text in a way that makes it a non-issue.
I've read it. It's a wonderfully written document on basic human rights and inter-government interaction. As regulation I can code to, it's a goddamn clusterfuck. It's like someone tried to invent TCP/IP but in the middle there's a paragraph that says something like "appropriate networking stuff happens here and data is reliably moved around!".
laws often describes the effect it ought to have, but don't mention how!
They went to great effort to make it readable and not full of legalese, you are really only doing yourself a disservice to not at least try.