Comment by jimnotgym
7 months ago
If it is anything like GDPR enforcement in the UK, the 'what if' situation is Ofcom writing to you asking you to comply.
7 months ago
If it is anything like GDPR enforcement in the UK, the 'what if' situation is Ofcom writing to you asking you to comply.
GDPR enforcement is bullshit because it was made by people who don't know what they are doing and didn't understand how much effort would be needed to actually prove there is a problem.
Honestly, same could be said for this one, it reads less like an attempt at making the internet better and more like a technical sounding PR stunt with sneaky power encroachment thrown in.
"We just need you to uses your government ID to sign in because of the children, we have a long track record of competent execution, maintenance and accountability, we are 100% not going to use this for other ...reasons"
It's the same governmental "Trust me bro, think of the children" they always throw out.
Outside of the intelligence agencies the UK government is absolutely diabolical at anything technical, chronically overbudget (because their original budget was decided by someone in an office with no actual experience managing an IT project) on projects they outsourced to corrupt friends who siphon the money away, not just IT, all projects.
They pay atrociously for the level of skill required for the positions advertised, so they get middle of the road staff, which isn't a problem normally, middle of the road is the backbone of IT projects.
The problem arises when you get actively bad project management, either incompetence or outright maliciousness, throw in some glacial bureaucracy laden processes that didn't work when they were drafted 40 years ago, let alone now.
and you get an entire industry of corruption and mediocrity.
/rant
anyway, i mean, sure you can take the lacklustre GDPR enforcement and use that to make decisions going forward, i wouldn't personally, because i don't think a single data point is a good basis for risk assessment.
DMCA, youtube copyright strikes, domain strikes, bank transaction complaints/chargebacks, all are mechanisms used to attack internet based businesses.
Do they serve a purpose, debatable, are they misused on a regular basis, absolutely.
This isn't a "the sky is falling" this is a "They have put into law the ability to drop the sky on me just because they (the government, or disgruntled internet denizens) feel like it"
It's up to you to decide how likely you think that is and plan accordingly.
There was a story very recently about the whole of itch.io going down because of some overzealous rent-seeking bullshit middleman (hired by rent-seeking bullshit artist FunkoPop)