EU is very good, most of the time.

Besides this GDPR Website thing, usb-c is great, energy standards are great, etc.

GDPR could have been great, if it was actually enforced in the way it was intended. Cookie banners and dark patterns are not actually allowed, but without enforcement, it's basically meaningless.

IMO the biggest issue is that the member states are individually required to set up agencies to police this. This makes perfect sense for local companies, but is meaningless against large entities that operate across the entire EU.

	▲	blenklo a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Large entities (companies right?) take that very serious. Its the other way around, small companies might not be aware of. Nonetheless, i have seen in a very small company that we changed the behaviour of a camera which then only turned on when the action expected it and not before. And in a very big company you alway have to fullfill it as a product standard.
	▲	dgellow a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It is being enforced: https://www.enforcementtracker.com You can report issues to your local watchdog. That takes quite some time, given the large amount of companies that do not follow the law, but it is enforced
	▲	Ekaros 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		GDPR fixes at least some actors. There is no solution for all actors especially bad ones. But many big actors will take steps to be in compliance. Which is lot more actors than without such regulation. Perfect being enemy of better. And at least now developers can have reasonable reason to ask do we actually need to store this or do we want to store it. Before that would have been stonewalled.

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nutjob2 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You forgot free mobile phone roaming