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Weren't you the one previously saying that don't panic (https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria) because of GDPR back in the day? And now you are advocating that they should have already complied with GDPR given its impact!

Make up your mind.

And this is exactly why this is such a shitshow. Stop attacking people who haven't complied because small developers have other things rather than trying to figure out whether they have to redo their logs if a user asks their data to be deleted. This is almost bullying behavior.

[jacquesm]

> Weren't you the one previously saying that don't panic (https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria) because of GDPR back in the day?

Yep.

> And now you are advocating that they should have already complied with GDPR given its impact!

Obviously yes, because today the law becomes enforceable. Not having done the required work is just plain dumb.

> Make up your mind.

I made up my mind well over a year ago, spent the time required to be compliant (a couple of days) and that was that. Instapaper being as small as it is would not have had to spend more time than that unless they are doing something they shouldn't be doing, are unable to plan or changed tactics in the last 2 days. After all, if they weren't going to make the deadline they had a very long time to announce that, instead they announce it the day before the law becomes enforceable. That's just not ok. At a minimum they should have had their export facility up and running.

> Stop attacking people who haven't complied because small developers have other things rather than trying to figure out whether they have to redo their logs if a user asks their data to be deleted.

I suspect you are in the same boat?

> This is almost bullying behavior.

Right. Well, sorry, it really isn't, it's the perspective of someone who has been in business for a very long time and who feels that the GDPR addresses some fairly urgent matters. Companies have been running roughshod over users' privacy rights for decades and it is one of the worst things to come out of the internet. The level of tracking and data brokering that is going on is utterly disgusting.

If you weren't doing anything you shouldn't be doing the GDPR is going to be a pretty simple affair if you're a small company. Larger companies will have some more work but have more resources.

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He's also the same guy who said, and I quote, "compliance is easy, just read the law."

It surprises me how much this community tolerates such combative cluelessness.

[jacquesm]

Have you read the law?

Did you start working on compliance in a timely manner or did you become aware of this a few weeks ago?

Does your company have a clue about what it is doing in general?

Do you take a user centric approach to data ownership?

If those are all 'yes' then compliance is easy. If you don't care, do illegal stuff, are clueless or don't care about your users then compliance is going to be hard, that's what the law intends because those companies should change their ways.

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His posts were clearly politically motivated, zealot-type propaganda. Either self-interest or useful-idiot.

For some reason he is such a fan of this legislation that he is willing to overlook its glaring problems. No objectivity there, I am afraid.

[jacquesm]

> His posts were clearly politically motivated, zealot-type propaganda.

Oh my. Terribly sorry for putting up a political manifesto.

> Either self-interest or useful-idiot.

Take your pick. No third options? Such as a genuine desire to take some of the heat off for SMEs, of which I own several and participate in several others?

> For some reason he is such a fan of this legislation that he is willing to overlook its glaring problems.

Yes, I'm a fan of this legislation. I also was a fan of its predecessor and it's a joy to see companies that don't have their house in order make all kinds of panicked moves. I have a pretty good behind the scenes view of what goes on with respect to privacy abuse by corporations due to the nature of my work. Those companies that do illegal stuff, don't give a damn about their users and that in general are clueless (and which in turn increases the chances of their online properties being compromised) will be the ones that run into the 'glaring problems' The only thing that I see as troublesome with the law is the lack of reciprocity and enforcement across borders. The EU picked a complex and for really small companies expensive way to resolve that and that's something that I see as a real issue.

> No objectivity there, I am afraid.

I think you mean to say you don't agree with me.