[HN Gopher] EU regulations to look out for in 2025
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       EU regulations to look out for in 2025
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2025-02-23 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | rzwitserloot wrote:
       | That data sharing thing goes pretty far. Am I reading that
       | correctly? Anything that is hosted in the EU, or sells to EU
       | citizens, has to share _all (generated by activity, personal and
       | non-personal, including meta-) data_ that the service itself can
       | use (i.e. backup tapes are excluded), upon request, free of
       | charge, without any obfuscation, and without much of a delay. For
       | B2B and B2C.
       | 
       | Almost sounds too good to be true. As far as I can tell:
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       | * There is no clause for restricting this if it's hard to do. If
       | it's _a lot_ of data, you still have to provide it.
       | 
       | * There is no clause indicating you can charge a fee for the
       | sharing of the data (this seems fair to me; the prep and transfer
       | costs, assuming you automate the process, are incredibly low
       | unless it's, I dunno, some 'permanently live stream my entire
       | life in 4k' service). Easier to just eliminate any attempt at
       | malicious compliance by interpreting 'reasonable' unreasonably.
        
         | jorvi wrote:
         | > Easier to just eliminate any attempt at malicious compliance
         | by interpreting 'reasonable' unreasonably.
         | 
         | Smart. Telcos in The Netherlands in the past did something
         | where, for unlimited cellular data service, they used a "Fair
         | Use Policy". Which they took at 10x the 'average' (mean not
         | median) data use.
         | 
         | Only problem was, this was early 2010's and there were still a
         | lot of old people who weren't using data. They had 0MB
         | subscriptions on their mobile subscription, which meant they
         | technically had a data subscription although with gigantic
         | costs per MB.
         | 
         | You can already see where this is going. All these
         | subscriptions were added along in the calculation, which meant
         | their mean fantasyland data usage came out at 1500MB and
         | '''unlimited''' data usage was capped at 15GB, after which
         | speeds would plummet to 64Kbps.
         | 
         | These days unlimited does mean unlimited, although you get a
         | 20GB daily allotment, after which you have to send a refill
         | text for every 2GB of data. Which of course can be scripted :).
         | Although I don't see why you'd need north of 600GB of mobile
         | data per month.
        
       | sylware wrote:
       | restore noscript/basic (x)html interop on all critical/dominant
       | sites where it did a good enough job already years ago?
        
       | Etheryte wrote:
       | For all its warts and flaws, I have to say I'm pretty happy with
       | where the EU is currently headed in a very broad sense. Sure,
       | there's a lot of bureaucracy and fancy slogans without getting
       | much done, but between all of that, there's also policies and
       | regulations that do clearly improve the lives of people, not
       | corporations, for a better tomorrow. With the world being pretty
       | chaotic in its current ways, this is a nice thing to see.
        
       | gapeslape wrote:
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         | ricardbejarano wrote:
         | This needing to exist is sad, but keep it up.
        
       | Razele wrote:
       | "eu regulations to look out for in 2025" as if regulations are
       | product launches. keep building europe! eagerly awaiting the next
       | drop.
        
         | mort96 wrote:
         | It doesn't say "EU regulations to look forward to", this isn't
         | a hype article. Us who actually work in tech in relation to EU
         | markets need to stay up to date on what regulations are
         | introduced so that we can make sure to be in compliance.
        
       | mort96 wrote:
       | A bit surprised to not see the cybersecurity regulation that's
       | now a part of the radio equipment directive. It'll have a huge
       | effect on everyone who sells hardware, with strict requirements
       | wrt cybersecurity for IoT devices, and is slated to take effect
       | this summer.
        
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