New EU Data Protection Law.
May. 22nd, 2018 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyornThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
-- Anatole France
The law also expects that any one running a web page or a blog should confirm to the same strict regulations that we all wish that google, twitter, facebook and the rest should confirm to. I cannot shake the feeling that it amounts to "Devil take the hindmost", i.e. the one with the least cash to pay for legal help. The business model of "find people who do not follow the law and request that they pay you a lot of money" (perfectly legal, btw) is alive and prospering.
I seriously feel that I should just lock my web presence, and rely on the power of big social media and fora to keep stuff in order, kind of. As they have done so successfully in the past. Well, sure, they sold or lost millions of data sets which then appeared in the hands of people using them not in any way the objects of that trade would ever have accepted, but at least you did not have to worry every Friday that someone would demand several thousand Euro of you by Monday. (Usually.)
So, I won't use any links or images on my new page. You are responsible for everything you link to, and stating that you have no power over what goes on on the pages you link to will be taken as a sign by the courts that you did the bad linking on purpose. (When this first came up, the German Justizministerium was unable to find a way to keep out of trouble with that law. They have given up by now.) I have to give my full name, street adress and probably phone number, so that anyone wishing to harass me about I-don't-know-what can find me and do so. (Police recommends that women should not give their full names and addresses on the internet.) I probably won't allow comments on my blog, so no content not created by me will show up. I might give up on Word Press and return to a good old-fashioned 90s style fully static web page.
I am trying to patch together (from online resources) a modest little 6000-word Data Protection declaration. If I am not allowing comments, not using a spam filter, not checking who comes to visit, 6000 words might be sufficient.
I am paranoid about all the wrong things, I am quite sure of that, but I do not know which of the many things that I am paranoid about the wrong ones, and which aren't. Too many shadows of tigers here.
In case you didn't notice, I am seriously annoyed with the whole business. Some billion-dollar-companies undermine democratic discourse, and everyone is encouraged to simply stop talking if not protected through a billion-dollar-company.
And the worst thing? This data protection law is not just well-intentioned, but urgently necessary, and might be as good as it gets. *headdesks*
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
-- H.L. Mencken.
-- Anatole France
The law also expects that any one running a web page or a blog should confirm to the same strict regulations that we all wish that google, twitter, facebook and the rest should confirm to. I cannot shake the feeling that it amounts to "Devil take the hindmost", i.e. the one with the least cash to pay for legal help. The business model of "find people who do not follow the law and request that they pay you a lot of money" (perfectly legal, btw) is alive and prospering.
I seriously feel that I should just lock my web presence, and rely on the power of big social media and fora to keep stuff in order, kind of. As they have done so successfully in the past. Well, sure, they sold or lost millions of data sets which then appeared in the hands of people using them not in any way the objects of that trade would ever have accepted, but at least you did not have to worry every Friday that someone would demand several thousand Euro of you by Monday. (Usually.)
So, I won't use any links or images on my new page. You are responsible for everything you link to, and stating that you have no power over what goes on on the pages you link to will be taken as a sign by the courts that you did the bad linking on purpose. (When this first came up, the German Justizministerium was unable to find a way to keep out of trouble with that law. They have given up by now.) I have to give my full name, street adress and probably phone number, so that anyone wishing to harass me about I-don't-know-what can find me and do so. (Police recommends that women should not give their full names and addresses on the internet.) I probably won't allow comments on my blog, so no content not created by me will show up. I might give up on Word Press and return to a good old-fashioned 90s style fully static web page.
I am trying to patch together (from online resources) a modest little 6000-word Data Protection declaration. If I am not allowing comments, not using a spam filter, not checking who comes to visit, 6000 words might be sufficient.
I am paranoid about all the wrong things, I am quite sure of that, but I do not know which of the many things that I am paranoid about the wrong ones, and which aren't. Too many shadows of tigers here.
In case you didn't notice, I am seriously annoyed with the whole business. Some billion-dollar-companies undermine democratic discourse, and everyone is encouraged to simply stop talking if not protected through a billion-dollar-company.
And the worst thing? This data protection law is not just well-intentioned, but urgently necessary, and might be as good as it gets. *headdesks*
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
-- H.L. Mencken.
