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0 pointsmakomk4y ago0 comments

The GDPR had consequences that were both wider and wilder than even its most aggressive critics predicted at the time, such as making it illegal for the banking system to continue using their existing EBCDIC-based systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986735 The HN discussion was also full of comments about how the bank should've changed its systems already because it had ample time to come into compliance with the GDPR, never mind that no-one really even anticipatd this as a compliance issue at the time.

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sofixa4y ago

That's a wild edge case. And yes, a bank or whoever should be able to note your real name. It's the banks' problem for using obsolete things, not a GDPR problem.

native_samples4y ago

What about the 'discovery' that Google Analytics is illegal under GDPR? Not raised even once right up until the moment the courts decided it.

EU privacy law is so vague that people routinely 'discover' new impacts of the rules only when some judge pulls them out of thin air. The fate of EU tech firms is pretty much well described above: endless agonizing over how these rules might be interpreted, followed by maximally damaging interpretations, because the nature of such law making is that enforcement is arbitrary.

dane-pgp4y ago

Won't somebody think of the surveillance capitalists?!

macinjosh4y ago

Your wild edge case is someone else's life and living. People who love controlling other people (like the government and those who support it) never seem to understand that.

sofixa4y ago

"the government" lol

> Your wild edge case is someone else's life and living.

Yes, the person whose name is mangled by a shitty bank's IT systems. Or the people who can see what a shitty data vacuuming company has on them( that now has to ask for consent beforehand).

Regulations are there to protect people like that, not just for fun.

macinjosh4y ago

In the 20th century 151,000,000 people were killed by "the government". lol? Maybe don't laugh about people that kill people for power.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM

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sofixa4y ago

That's a wild edge case. And yes, a bank or whoever should be able to note your real name. It's the banks' problem for using obsolete things, not a GDPR problem.

native_samples4y ago

What about the 'discovery' that Google Analytics is illegal under GDPR? Not raised even once right up until the moment the courts decided it.

dane-pgp4y ago

Won't somebody think of the surveillance capitalists?!

macinjosh4y ago

Your wild edge case is someone else's life and living. People who love controlling other people (like the government and those who support it) never seem to understand that.

sofixa4y ago

"the government" lol

> Your wild edge case is someone else's life and living.

Yes, the person whose name is mangled by a shitty bank's IT systems. Or the people who can see what a shitty data vacuuming company has on them( that now has to ask for consent beforehand).

Regulations are there to protect people like that, not just for fun.

macinjosh4y ago

In the 20th century 151,000,000 people were killed by "the government". lol? Maybe don't laugh about people that kill people for power.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM

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