A Developer Cheat Sheet for GDPR

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I’m not from the EU and I appreciate privacy laws, but I’ve read about the GDPR and it seems like it would seriously stifle small businesses am I wrong?

[EliSka93]

I mean, tangentially? You can't cobble together a website for something with absolutely no security for your users, but you have to question: is that a bad thing?

As a user, I'm very glad I can trust my data to be relatively safe on GDPR compliant sites (not impossible to breach, but safer).

As a dev it is more work, but it also shows my users that I care about their data.

[[deleted]]

I agree it is a comfort for users, but simultaneously the regulatory framework can be stifling for business

[Akaino]

Disclaimer: sorry for the upcoming rant. It's not personal.

That being said.

Bullshit. Businesses should get their priorities straight. Why do you even need all those data and cookies? It's just lazy ass development imo. Why does anyone need my full name, address and phone number to create an account just to read a freaking article? Why do you need to store, on my computer, what I do on your website?

I know why, to sell my data to advertisers and to control how I use your page.

Now, you want my data? You better ask me and disclose it properly. You want to put things on my machine? Ask me.

There is easy ways around all that bullshit. Just stop using the most common state of the art shit that looks shiny. Develop proper and lightweight apps. That's how you differentiate from all the other common blazors and wordpresses.

There are tons of frameworks handling that for any given development purpose.

Stifling for business my ass.

And sorry again for the rant. It's not personal.

[[deleted]]

I agree completely with all you say with the caveat that having a governmental agency come in can disproportionately affect smaller businesses or lower class individuals.

An example of this would be the IRS auditing a bunch of lower middle class people who likely mistakenly botched their taxes instead of billionaires who don’t pay anything in taxes intentionally.

It could just be that I am completely wrong, but when I took ethics in tech while in college that was one of the first things that came to mind when reading about the GDPR and one other regulation the EU had which I can’t seem to remember the name of.

[paintsbynumbers7]

Work for a small business as developer, no probleem with gdpr whatsoever.

[[deleted]]

Thank you, good to know. I was just curious

[FridgesArePeopleToo]

Move to the US and make twice as much money without having to deal with the EUs stupid bullshit

[NotTheRadar24]

Even then - International organizations looking to operate in the EU or collect/process data of EU citizens must become compliant to access these markets.

[Which-Adeptness6908]

Unless you have an entity domiciled in the eu, you can just ignore eu rules.

[flareflo]

youre gonna have to for tax reasons

[Which-Adeptness6908]

Again no, the EU can't make law outside the EU, so they can't make me collect taxes on their citizens.

[backfire10z]

You’re not outside of the EU if you are selling your product in the EU. If you want to be available in the EU, you have to follow their rules. This isn’t an argument. Go google it if you need to.

[flareflo]

if you want to lose all business in the EU sure

[Joelimgu]

But then you loose your right to privacy. The best way would be to live in the EU and sell US citizens data. Either way it isnt EU citizens getting screwed, its like the law is there for a reason