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‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’: GDPR compliance efforts are falling short

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  1. cfabbro
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    Those statements remind me of the famous Upton Sinclair quote/aphorism: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

    “Many publishers [and marketers] seem to have shot themselves willfully, or ignorantly, in the foot”

    "Confusion will continue to reign, and until someone actually gets burned, everyone is trying to fly as close to the sun as possible"

    Those statements remind me of the famous Upton Sinclair quote/aphorism:
    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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  2. Emerald_Knight
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    This is what I've been feeling about the GDPR whenever I tried to figure out under what circumstances I had to be concerned about compliance. The language is so absurdly vague as to be almost...

    GDPR has been criticized for being vague and open to interpretation. . .

    This is what I've been feeling about the GDPR whenever I tried to figure out under what circumstances I had to be concerned about compliance. The language is so absurdly vague as to be almost useless, and it doesn't cover edge cases like companies that don't operate in the EU and may even deliberately and explicitly avoid dealings with the EU, but still end up with data originating from the EU for one reason or another (e.g. a company that only operates domestically for the short-term).

    It really shouldn't be such a surprise that people are screwing up so much with compliance if it's not even clear what compliance looks like.

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