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by scruple
2953 days ago
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> Talk to any proponent of the GDPR, and they’ll tell you that it’s all about principles and intentions. Here's a random and perhaps unfounded thought that I've had a couple of times regarding this line of thought re: GDPR. What to stop some foreign bad actors from abusing the hell out of this legislation and burning up more useful time and energy on it? Moving beyond that, it would very likely serve to further divide and erode the trust between the EU and the US. For example, if we're to assume that Russia is seriously meddling in everything that they currently stand accused of meddling in, essentially engaging in some loose, and seemingly effective (depending on who you ask), forms of cyber warfare, then what is to stop them from turning this regulation in to a complete nightmare for US/EU relations and further driving us away from our common goals? It just seems to me that these sorts of good faith and intentions based laws don't work as effectively in the modern era as they maybe once did. edit/ It honestly doesn't even need to be so malicious. I could imagine trolls causing more than enough trouble for small businesses just for the lulz. |
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Nothing, and in fact it incentivizes each of the 28 countries to act in bad faith. The crippling fines authorized by GDPR have the potential to both create enormous revenue streams and hobble foreign competitors of local companies. GDPR advocates say this won’t happen, but there is nothing to stop it.