[yetihehe]

The alternative is that they tweak the laws without much thought...

[dgfitz]

Isn’t that the current status quo?

[lukeschlather]

The GDPR has over 100k words, and those words are certainly less than 0.01% of the thought that has gone into this problem.

[immibis]

Agile laws might not be so terrible.

[JadeNB]

Counteropinion: agile laws would be absolutely terrible. Either people wouldn't take them seriously because they're going to change in a few minutes anyway, or people would take them seriously and be bound by law by the equivalent of late-night untested code that seemed like it should work.

[_carbyau_]

Charitable interpretation of their comment: Law is implemented and then rapidly improved upon.

But yes, I think your take is more realistic as any measure that allows rapid changes also allows willful politics to rapidly make a mess.

[account42]

Imagine being charged for something that you didn't yet know was a crime because you didn't watch the morning news.