<story><title>Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement</title><url>https://www.complianceweek.com/gdpr/two-years-in-gdpr-defined-by-mixed-signals-unbalanced-enforcement/28972.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>volak</author><text>I would pay a subscription to a news site if they spent all their time evaluating 2-5 year old events and determining which side was right.&lt;p&gt;2 years ago comments of &amp;quot;this will only benefit the lawyers&amp;quot; would be -50 points.  Turns out... actually yeah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>exabrial</author><text>Reminds me when the EU &amp;quot;Fixed&amp;quot; Cookies and now we have these stupid click-through warnings everywhere that have pretty much ruined the user experience. Root cause: people passing laws they have idea what about.</text></comment>
<story><title>Two years in, GDPR defined by mixed signals, unbalanced enforcement</title><url>https://www.complianceweek.com/gdpr/two-years-in-gdpr-defined-by-mixed-signals-unbalanced-enforcement/28972.article</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>volak</author><text>I would pay a subscription to a news site if they spent all their time evaluating 2-5 year old events and determining which side was right.&lt;p&gt;2 years ago comments of &amp;quot;this will only benefit the lawyers&amp;quot; would be -50 points.  Turns out... actually yeah.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kodablah</author><text>There is a bit deja vu, since at that time we were pointing out similar flaws in the DPD (lack of enforcement, lack of clarity, govt inefficiencies, the inability for proponents to separate intent from reality, etc).&lt;p&gt;Sadly, there is an absolute &amp;quot;for or against&amp;quot; mentality out there. You can&amp;#x27;t make it clear that the implementation of such a law would be poor enough to not justify it being enacted in the first place lest you are told &amp;quot;well, should we do nothing?&amp;quot;. We can easily start with easy-to-understand&amp;#x2F;implement transparency requirements (maybe even just as guidelines or requirements for a form of certification at first while encouraging technical solutions in the meantime). Never-realized scary fines might as well have never been brought forth.</text></comment>