• 0x815@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    As an EU citizen, I’m often disappointed how these things are applied. New rules may be fine, but often it takes a really really long time here until the necessary changes take an effect in the real world.

    The GDPR is a good example imo. We have it for 5 years now, but even many public authorities still don’t comply with it. So I feel that many things are just written on paper.

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      1 year ago

      State authorities aren’t bound by GDPR. That’s something that’s explicitly stated in it.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t they? It may depend on which MS you live in, but fines for not complying with the GDPR are pretty hefty, and although I agree that at the beginning there was a bit of chaos, things have significantly improved, and things like the right to be forgotten do indeed have a direct impact on our lives!

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        1 year ago

        It seems to get better of late, but slowly. We can get an idea about how GDPR is handled across the EU in the GDPR enforcement tracker or in the GDPR Trap Map. Amongst others, the latter says for example:

        Departing from the standard in most procedural laws in Germany, Article 20 of the Bavarian Data Protection Law codifies that a complainant may not get access to the files in a complaints procedure. This means that the data subject is very much limited in effectively challenging wrong arguments by the controller. The provision seems to violate fair procedures rights.

        Edit for an addition: There are many sites to check a website’s GDPR compliance, e.g. Fathom’s, and to find trackers and cookies there is also The Markup’s Blacklight. I’m not aware whether these tools are known by everyone already.