Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Thu Apr 07 2022 23:04:38

 Ar>  > One should look at the EU, and how they are putting in stricter regulat
 Ar>  > think a lot of this attitude against this "idealism" is US/Northern Eur
 Ar>  > centric, where the culture is very laissez faire.  Europeans are ahead 
 Ar>  > curve here I think and understand the need for greater controls and
 Ar>  > responsibilities.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The European solution is to make it so you need a data protection
 Ar> delegate to keep an automated archive even if you are not sharing any
 Ar> information with third parties.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The organism in charge of handling GDPR sanctions is officially
 Ar> overloaded with bullshit sanctions.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The current scene in Europe is clearly designed for Big Companies which
 Ar> can afford to outsource the legals of GDPR methods, check the boxes, run
 Ar> an anual audit, and keep selling people's data away. Meanwhile your
 Ar> mom-and-dad business is operating illegaly because they don't know (or
 Ar> can afford) better and are liable to hefty fines for stupid violations.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The place I work for once had an incident with a debt collection agency.
 Ar> When they phoned the debt collectors and asked them for information
 Ar> regarding the debt we supposedly owed, they could not do so because it
 Ar> involved a patient and therefore was unshareable personal data.
 Ar> 
 Ar> We get cookie laws and heavy ToS documents nobody reads as part of the
 Ar> GDPR agreement but we barely get any of the real problems solved at all.
 Ar> In typical Spaniard style, we have thrown in resource intensive solution
 Ar> which does not solve 10% of the problem and we are calling it an
 Ar> absolute success.
 Ar> 

What can be achieved by social convention and morals should not be touched by beaurocracy.  That is why I'd prefer a solution where people who do become custodians of other people speech, take voluntarily responsibility.

If we continue with this attitude that nothing matters, that we have no obligation to at least be transparent and inform people, then beaurocracy will step in.

Sure, the BBS is small fry, but I imagine the attitudes here, also extend elsewhere.

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