I'm as concerned as anyone about privacy issues but GDPR has just gone too far in the sense that nobody really understands it (I've undergone trainings with 2x previous employers and everyone just kind of shrugs that it doesn't make sense and we'll do our best bla bla bla ...) and that now they're trying to make an actual useful piece of software illegal? And that for reasons that the very people they're trying to protect will completely fail to understand.
So many marketing departments depend on it, how can they realistically enforce this law?
I'm saying this as someone who's not a fanboy, GA can be a pain to use and overly complex, maybe Matomo is even better.
Nobody understands this, apart from us techies. Try explain to the average user that storing his screen resolution on a server in the US could mean he's being profiled by the NSA. Reaction will be "oooo you spooky hacker". It frustrates me that people react like this, don't get me wrong.
Changes are always difficult, no matter how small or large they are.
As a European, I welcome this wholeheartedly! It makes my daily job harder (as a programmer), but it’s needed to stop this insane industry of using private information as a currency. Most people seem to don’t care, but that is mostly because they don’t understand the consequences of this.
GDPR isn’t really that hard to understand. If you need to gather PII, you need the proper approval from the end user to do so. If you don’t have the proper approval, you can’t store it. Also, don’t gather information you don’t need. If you only need page views, don’t store IP, resolution, localisation and all these things in addition. This is common sense, not science. In fact, you should be happy to have these restrictions, because it lowers the risks in case of data breaches.
The real problem with GDPR is that we’re so used to violate peoples rights that we have completely forgotten how we should behave.
I'm as concerned as anyone about privacy issues but GDPR has just gone too far in the sense that nobody really understands it (I've undergone trainings with 2x previous employers and everyone just kind of shrugs that it doesn't make sense and we'll do our best bla bla bla ...) and that now they're trying to make an actual useful piece of software illegal? And that for reasons that the very people they're trying to protect will completely fail to understand.
So many marketing departments depend on it, how can they realistically enforce this law?
I'm saying this as someone who's not a fanboy, GA can be a pain to use and overly complex, maybe Matomo is even better.
This is typical EU over reaching bs.