Looks like the Brussels Effect is in full force. I imagine for Microsoft if they're making the effort to put the practices in place for the EU it's probably in their financial / legal best...
Looks like the Brussels Effect is in full force. I imagine for Microsoft if they're making the effort to put the practices in place for the EU it's probably in their financial / legal best interests to just extend it to everyone instead of trying to determine if a user is an EU user and risk getting it wrong.
I wonder if this will be a trend for global companies...
Note: It's something I've already noticed with Google Analytics, they changed up the retention policies and the default was one that went in line with GDPR. You can opt out of the retention limit, and keep your data but that one is on you I guess.
I never knew that effect had a name. I know Discord is also applying this policy to everyone, from their privacy policy change email: Hopefully other big sites and services do that too.
I never knew that effect had a name. I know Discord is also applying this policy to everyone, from their privacy policy change email:
We're updating our privacy policy in preparation for the EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) later this month. Although these changes are spurred by European law, we think privacy is super important and so these changes will apply to everyone, no matter where you're located.
Hopefully other big sites and services do that too.
I'm telling you, is just the developers that didn't want to create a bunch of exceptions for the agreement's section on the windows installation. Never underestimate developer's laziness :) (I...
I'm telling you, is just the developers that didn't want to create a bunch of exceptions for the agreement's section on the windows installation.
Looks like the Brussels Effect is in full force. I imagine for Microsoft if they're making the effort to put the practices in place for the EU it's probably in their financial / legal best interests to just extend it to everyone instead of trying to determine if a user is an EU user and risk getting it wrong.
I wonder if this will be a trend for global companies...
Note: It's something I've already noticed with Google Analytics, they changed up the retention policies and the default was one that went in line with GDPR. You can opt out of the retention limit, and keep your data but that one is on you I guess.
I never knew that effect had a name. I know Discord is also applying this policy to everyone, from their privacy policy change email:
Hopefully other big sites and services do that too.
I'm telling you, is just the developers that didn't want to create a bunch of exceptions for the agreement's section on the windows installation.
Never underestimate developer's laziness :)
(I really wish I could tag this comment joke)
Honestly, it is a lot less work if you just aim for the single-system approach.
Oh I know! The joke thing was more for the content itself not really saying anything useful :)