GDPR privacy laws!

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Owners or no community owners, Who is ready for the new privacy laws?

GDPR ( General Data Protection Regulation ) In details for those that don't understand this term, it's a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union. It addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. Rules go into effect in 18 days from now. They seem to be very loose and general with huge fines for sites that violate the privacy laws.

My site is hosted on a USA based server and also forum, Yet even if you don't have any European traffic it's still very important to obey this new law. Even if you had 1% visitor come from Europe you liable to get your butt in the deep water. About 20% of my visitors come from Europe ( I'm one of them). We do sell products, like gaming keys, also run adsense and third party websites.

You can have endless policies that relate to your site so as long as you cover your back in case anything goes wrong because most site are public and anything public can be manipulated even with all this compensation things going round these days

Should I be worried? What steps are you guys and gals taking to get your forums in compliance?

 

[IntoxNitram]

I’m really struggling to understand how it implies and what I need to do to comply. It’s a basic forum I operate, not a business and it seems pretty ambiguous if it applies to these types of sites. I’m pretty sure there’s a fee to comply too which will likely put most forum owners off.

 

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I’m really struggling to understand how it implies and what I need to do to comply. It’s a basic forum I operate, not a business and it seems pretty ambiguous if it applies to these types of sites. I’m pretty sure there’s a fee to comply too which will likely put most forum owners off.

Does your site holds information like cookies, Ip address, emails, members DOB and whatnot?

That's under "information we collect" and what do you do with the information that you collect. Well, This might help http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:Policies

 

[Carlos X]

I wouldn't worry about this dumb law. This law is meant to "tax" corporations that localize their companies in that country. The tactic won't work, for example: Facebook recently just moved their euro users into their housed servers. That means they retain control of the userbase.

This law will instigate more controversy once more people know about it. Twitter and other companies, like Tapatalk are sending e-mails to everyone talking about it, but it's actually a PR move. I doubt they agree with it, but it's just PR for them.

For me, I'm not complying with this law, and I don't care for it. It's stupid.

 

[Bryn]

For me, I'm not complying with this law, and I don't care for it. It's stupid.

I second that. Heard of this before mind you...

 

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For me, I'm not complying with this law, and I don't care for it. It's stupid.

I second that. Heard of this before mind you...

That's the EU, For you 😕

 

[Bryn]

But then again, my country will be saying farewell to the EU next year so...

 

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But then again, my country will be saying farewell to the EU next year so...

Doesn't make any difference, I doubt it be a year. Don't put your chances up, since the EU always have some crap crazy excuses.

One day that the United kingdom will no longer be apart of the EU, however GDRP will still be enforced. You still going to have other European under the EU

 

[Bryn]

Fair enough, but I won't comply with it anyway.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Xenforo and a couple other scripts seem to be adding things to make it easy to comply/comply by default. I don’t see them going after small forum owners regardless so I’m not quick to comply. I’ll just do whatever I can if it’s easy once a standard becomes available.

 

[Carlos X]

For me, I'm not complying with this law, and I don't care for it. It's stupid.

I second that. Heard of this before mind you...

Me too. I read about it, and saw the e-mails... I thought it was stupid from the get-go.

EDIT: Here's LiquidWeb's e-mail about the issue... (And Blog post here.)

Whether you are a designer, developer or agency, you've probably heard about the EU's new regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will go into effect on May 25th. The GDPR applies not only to EU-based businesses but also to ANY business that controls or processes data of EU citizens. Join our live webinar on May 15th hosted by VP of Products, Chris Lema, to learn how this change will impact your store.

But that doesn't faze me, because I live in the U.S. and I think this law is so dumb it needs to be re-worked if they want to stay on the good side of everyone else. Many corporations disagree with this, which includes facebook.

Thing is, I don't care about the information "collected" from EU, as long I understand their behaviors on my site. I do not care about their addresses, I do not care about how much they make (besides marketing reasons), and I absolutely do not care about their Social Security (whatever it's called there), once I understand where I found you, I will play it up and grow the market. That's all there is to it. The "information" I gained is of no use to me.

That's how I feel about it. Many corporations have evil intentions with data, but I don't. Google doesn't care about it. Facebook doesn't care about it. It's just that people overreact when they read "privacy breach." Which, is what I think triggered this law. *scratches head*

 

[Bryn]

So uh... what am I going to do about this? Whether I own a forum or just visit one? :\

 

[Carlos X]

So uh... what am I going to do about this? Whether I own a forum or just visit one? :\

You as a user don't have to worry about this garbage. The owner of a website has to deal with the headaches. However, this whole thing was probably triggered by the security breaches of the last few years. Since, after all, some companies were negligent about security. This whole thing is about holding corporations, and especially corporations that set up HQ's in EU area - responsible (in theory, anyway).

I wouldn't pay attention if I were you. In a year, this whole thing will go away because it will cause a lot of controversy, the same way Net Neutrality is getting controversy. Thing is, the difference between the two, is EU is hurting for money. Nobody supports the EU right now. Net Neutrality is getting support from every major corporation with money to spare.

That's why EU initiated this law. They're desperate for money.

 

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Thought I update this. As we all know that the day is coming, Believe it or not it be tomorrow (UK time zones) and who is ready?

Over the month I had unless emails from online business or private sites, regards there update on GDPR. For me I'm ready 🙂 and also don't care as much as I thought since it's this crap EU new crazy law.

 

[Bryn]

I've received a few emails and notices about it but, I just dismissed them. I even got PMs from the ProBoards team on the PB forums I'm on also but I just deleted them.

We'll see how this will pan out. I pray it won't be anything too bad.

EDIT: Hold up... it's emerged that many tech companies are suffering due to this. Great. That's all we need <_<

 

[Jordan]

I think the EU laws are ludicrous. I understand the importance of privacy. You say they are very loose. I, however, diassgree with that statement.

I also find it odd that the EU thinks their laws apply to countries outside of EU 😉

 

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EDIT: Hold up... it's emerged that many tech companies are suffering due to this. Great. That's all we need <_<

That's not going to be good, they are going to lose allot of profit, Yet again this new EU law, we have no idea what they would do.

I also find it odd that the EU thinks their laws apply to countries outside of EU 😉

Now that's a joke.

 

[Jordan]

Now that's a joke.

All of my sites have always had great privacy enforcement. As I myself am very concerned with user protection.
However, the GDPR has a lot of very strict rules, some of which are great, others are ridiculous.

How does the Eu expect a website owner to actually know if someone is from the EU? You 100% cannot rely on an IP due to how popular proxies and VPN's are these days.

 

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How does the Eu expect a website owner to actually know if someone is from the EU? You 100% cannot rely on an IP due to how popular proxies and VPN's are these days.

you won't know, most owners won't. Since most of us do use VPN's

 

[Jordan]

I wouldn't worry about this dumb law. This law is meant to "tax" corporations that localize their companies in that country.

That is honestly not true. You don't get taxed at all. You only get "fined" if you are found collecting personal information of Eu residents and not complying with the new law.

For me, I'm not complying with this law, and I don't care for it. It's stupid.

You will have no choice. Even if you are based in USA. If you have a SINGLE member who is from any country apart of the EU you will have to comply with the GDPR law.