It's difficult for many small businesspeople to do bookeeping, but guess what? If they want to do business and comply with the law, they do it.
If they procrastinate, or do it sloppily, because they decide to do other things with their time than prioritize keeping their books properly, they are deliberately not doing their bookeeping.
It's the same thing with accessibility. People will say, "Our app isn't accessible, but that wasn't our deliberate choice, we just haven't tried to make our app accessible."
Nope. When you chose to spend time growth hacking instead of accessibility hacking, you deliberately chose money over accessibility.
Google does not get a pass because they didn't deliberately set out to do the wrong thing. By not choosing to do the right thing, the right way, they deliberately chose to do the wrong thing.
> You are pretending they are deliberately doing it.
Are you saying they're doing it by accident? Even if so, that means they're negligently handling the data. And if not, they're purposefully disobeying the law.
Yes, I'm saying they are doing it accidentally, and that the specifics of the scenario will undoubtably be more complex than it seems on the surface.Every company is breaking some law somewhere. The legal environment is extremely complex. Google products are extremely complex. It's not some awful thing when they make an understandable, minor mistake.
It's difficult to know for sure where to store data in a GDPR world. People move. People have multiple citizenships. People open accounts in countries where they aren't citizens. People give up citizenships. People share documents with other people. People ingest data from one product to another. People comment on documents. It's really, really hard to get all of this down. It's not even clear legally what to do in various scenarios and it's impossible to enumerate them all. It's difficult.
If they procrastinate, or do it sloppily, because they decide to do other things with their time than prioritize keeping their books properly, they are deliberately not doing their bookeeping.
It's the same thing with accessibility. People will say, "Our app isn't accessible, but that wasn't our deliberate choice, we just haven't tried to make our app accessible."
Nope. When you chose to spend time growth hacking instead of accessibility hacking, you deliberately chose money over accessibility.
Google does not get a pass because they didn't deliberately set out to do the wrong thing. By not choosing to do the right thing, the right way, they deliberately chose to do the wrong thing.