No one’s ready for GDPR
Sarah Jeong,
The Verge,
May 23, 2018
After four years of deliberation and two years of preparation, as the deadline for GDPR implementation approaches in a matter of days, the inevitable caterwauls of "nobody is ready for GDPR" have commenced. Oh, there are complaints: the law is too complex, business systems are too complex, the penalties are too harsh. And on and on. But if the ownership of the data is unclear, that's because they took it without asking. If it's scattered in various databases, that's because that's how they decided to store it. "For many years it's been, 'How much data can we trick people into giving us?' and 'We'll figure out how to use it later!' That is not going to be an acceptable way to operate anymore under GDPR," says Straight.
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