Good day all. Recently, the European Union’s latest disaster took effect. This is what is known as the GDPR. While this acronym sounds like one of the old Eastern European Communist countries, it actually stands for General Data Protection Regulation.
It does not stand for, contrary to everyone in the United States who has to deal with this load of Eurotrash garbage, “God Damn Privacy Rules.” It stands for General Data Protection Regulations, and is the biggest pain in the ass ever. Basically, thanks to the blind stupidity of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Googlag. The Brussels Bureaucrats have put together a nice little mess that allegedly allows people to remove their personal data from web sites. In point of fact, it’s just another tool in the Eurostan’s toolbox to loot American companies.
The new regulations aren’t even a week old, and a bunch of greedy Eurotrash communists are already suing Faceplant and Googlag for something on the order of $8 billion dollars. According to The Verge:
On the first day of GDPR enforcement, Facebook and Google have been hit with a raft of lawsuits accusing the companies of coercing users into sharing personal data. The lawsuits, which seek to fine Facebook 3.9 billion and Google 3.7 billion euro (roughly $8.8 billion in dollars), were filed by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, a longtime critic of the companies’ data collection practices.
GDPR requires clear consent and justification for any personal data collected from users, and these guidelines have pushed companies across the internet to revise their privacy policies and collection practices. But there is still widespread uncertainty over how European regulators will treat the requirements, and many companies are still unprepared for enforcement.
You don’t have to tell me about how panicked companies are. I work for one with a global footprint. We provide services for other companies. It’s been nonstop panicked calls to run SQL queries and scripts, questions and other things. I’ve had to sit through hours of GDPR compliance training. (Slept through actually) The GDPR regulations make the ones put out by FERC look clear as the purest water in comparison.
Both Google and Facebook have rolled out new policies and products to comply with GDPR, but Schrems’ complaints argue those policies don’t go far enough. In particular, the complaint singles out the way companies obtain consent for the privacy policies, asking users to check a box in order to access services. It’s a widespread practice for online services, but the complaints argue that it forces users into an all-or-nothing choice, a violation of the GDPR’s provisions around particularized consent.
Over the last week or so, and especially this weekend, we’ve all been getting email and pop up notices on terms of service and privacy spam. This is the reason why. As for this piece of Eurotrash, Max Schrems? As far as I can tell, he’s just your typical Special Snowflake, not unlike that Hitler Wannabe, David Hogg. I don’t think he’s going to get what he thinks he’s going to get, and all he’s going to do is piss off a lot of people. Those people are the one’s he’s claiming to be “Helping.”
As for Anger Central? I’ve dealt with EuroVermin before. The last time was almost 20 years ago when some English lawyer started making demands and threats regarding our main site. I didn’t back down then and I won’t now. Of course, I had to remind that worthless tool that I am an American, the site is hosted on American servers, we are covered by the 1st Amendment, and told him to go piss up a rope. (I think I said that literally, I don’t recall) He came at me with threats of getting an American lawyer. My response? “Go ahead, and read this.” I sent him a copy of the 2nd Amendment. I never heard from him again.
I generally don’t track things, and have no interest in who reads my posts on the Blog or the rantings and ravings on the Main site. If some Brussels’s Bureaucrat wants to come at me, he, she or it, will have to come here. As for the other companies? A lot are going to go out of business, and more are just going to cut off Eurostan. That may be what the totalitarians in Brussels want. The less information the serfs have, the better the ruling elite likes it. They just better understand that this time, we aren’t coming to their rescue again.
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Postscript:
I just logged into the editor of the blog to post this, (I compose the entries offline in LibreOffice) when I saw this load of horseshit:
Akismet & Privacy.
To help your site be compliant with GDPR and other laws requiring notification of tracking, Akismet can display a notice to your users on your contact form. This feature is disabled by default, however, if you or your audience is located in Europe, you need to turn it on.
Please enable or disable this feature. More information. (Internal hyperlinks removed. AW)
I have no intention of activating this “feature” and this is my response to the Nazi scum in Brussels:
