I call your bullshit. I know what the regulation requires and this is nothing but a bunch of arguments that some asshole executive at Google would parrot out. Small companies can easily comply with a large swath of the regulations without that much more effort. Most of my software and infrastructure I have at my HOUSE, developed exclusively by me, can comply with the regulations. The only people that have issues with this are people that were recklessly throwing out hot garbage to snag a quick buck at someone else's expense, companies that make most of their money from dragnet style data collection of users, or people that heard some talking head drone on about "undue hardship and government overreach."

I plan to start a software company (without some random jackass giving me free money) within the next decade and I fully support these regulations being implemented in the US.

In fairness, the so-called "blue" states _produce_ almost nothing of value. Rather, they domicile the headquarters of various lawful-fraud financial scams (Wall Street) and police state organs (Surveillance Valley) that enable extraction of wealth from the hinterlands.

Many members of the clique who like to use the phrase "blue state" in fact work for those financial scammers and police state organs. It's quite natural that they want to demonize the ordinary people they work to oppress.

Not if they're in the U.S. They are subject to all the same regulations which any authorized money changer needs to follow. You don't have FDIC insurance, of course, but that's true of brokerage accounts and the like as well.

You should know that this is probably illegal under GPDR. Yes, that is going to cause problems with database design, for reasons that anyone who has ever built a data-driven website knows.

Sure you are not confusing "smartness" with achievement? The bad thing is to let the smart kids slack off and rely on their innate ability. Teachers should praise effort, but acknowledge intelligence.

Bollocks! That is a complete urban legend. Einstein was brilliant at maths in school, though probably not the equal of his friend Marcel Grossmann, who helped with the maths for GR.

Its sad that you got near students if you were unable to recognise talent.

Except it really isn't that difficult to comply with GDPR regulations. I've had training on it since I work for an internationally present company, and it basically amounts to only a few tenants for most software.

First, gather only information necessary to perform the tasks or services being offered. Any information gathered should be clearly stated in a way the user can understand and they should have easily accessible and granular controls for that information (i.e. don't bury the privacy toggle under 100 menus that don't even seem related) unless it is absolutely essential for basic operation. Finally, the user has a right to that information and should be able to get a copy of all of the data related to them and easily be able to request the irreversible deletion of that data at any time.

There are other recommendations and compliance guidelines, but none of it is that complicated. Really it just protects users from having massive data harvesting efforts go on without their consent, gives some teeth to the courts to enforce the restrictions, and creates transparency about what a company is actually doing. I'm really not sure why people are so against it. Small companies don't even have the resources or wherewithal to be violating a large portion of the regulation without ill-intent from the start, and the violation penalties are based on the size of the company, users affected, and scales down based on their revenue. Hell, it hasn't even changed most of our development process at my job because we weren't violating this shit to begin with.

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