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by zelphirkalt 43 days ago
In Germany we have the completely wrong mindset for such things. Instead of being grateful, all we care about is "whose fault is it" and CYA tactics. And no one wants to be "guilty" or have their incompetence revealed, so suits will do anything they can to avoid that. Somethings serious needs to go wrong first, so that loss of face already happens, before anyone will move. Maybe we need to get hacked by Russia a few more times.
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CalRobert 43 days ago
How is the home of chaos computer club so bad at this....
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rf15 43 days ago
It is only this degree of malice and incompetence that can give rise to something like the CCC.
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Kirth 43 days ago
Yeah it does feel like much tech competence that sprouts in Germany is either sequestered off and penned in, and/or leaves the country.
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dmichulke 42 days ago
There is a kind of naiveté, also at EU level, where people think that once it's a law, bad actors will just fold.

They minds are somehow unable to comprehend that only the good actors will fold and only bad actors will be left.

Other examples are: Firearms possession, supply chain law regarding human rights and child labor.

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CalRobert 42 days ago
I was really excited for GDPR until I realized Europe had no intention of actually enforcing it :-(
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abc123abc123 42 days ago
Actually, southern europe seems to have understood that it can be quite a good business fining US megacorps billions and billions. Northern european countries do very little except symbolic wrist slapping.
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CalRobert 42 days ago
Sure, but there were other provisions like machine-readability of exported data, etc. that could have been really helpful. I should be able to do a one-click export of my Spotify playlists and favourites (the music I like is personal info in my view) in to Qobuz, for instance.

"The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided"

https://gdpr-library.com/article/20

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WesolyKubeczek 43 days ago
You still have quite enough people in high places who are direct or indirect beneficiaries of companies that are either Russian or tied to Russia, so nothing will ever happen even then.
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