a check every month enough to pay their full time salaries
I would usually agree because often FOSS projects are used commercially but I don’t think this standard doesn’t apply here because the Lemmy instances are also non-commercial projects.
Well, the bare minimum you need to do, is refuse traffic from the EU then. The devs don’t want to do that, but they also don’t want to implement the changes which is illegal and carried huge fines (yes, they can fine you in the US too)
The fines are only proportional for big corporations. Organizations without revenue can still be fined:
Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:
(a) the basic principles for processing, […] pursuant to Articles […] 7 […];
In this case, the processing of data hinges upon the data subject’s consent, which is detailed in article 7.
Also, this is not an issue for the developers, but for the admins.
Imagine a car manufacturer building cars without brakes and then saying ‘This isn’t a problem for the engineers, but for the retailers’. Of course the developers can’t be sued for this. But that’s not the point! The point is that this bug or missing feature or whatever you want to call it jeopardizes the admins upon which this whole ecosystem hinges. I can’t believe that that’s in the devs’ best interests.
They are also proportional to the size of the leak. Small businesses get some leeway, but the approach that devs have had so far is “we don’t care” when it was brought up.
It’s an issue for both. If a software you run can get you fined in both the US and the EU, then devs need to adapt or nobody will be using it. Right now, lemmy is too small for big wigs to notice. It takes one disgruntled user to report the breaches though, and everything can change veeeery quickly.
Your point is “don’t make our devs do things that are essential for using it in Europe”
I wasn’t talking about some issues on github, I was talking about GDPR. If lemmy is to be used in any way, it can’t behave like some student project thrown together from random bits. Legal is part of that. And there is a lot of it to go through. I get it, it’s not fun at all to code that and they’d rather do some cool new feature instead. But it needs to be done, even if nobody wants to do it. Or, at least people could simply accept the risk of it going really bad.
Yeaaah, except I don’t care about this platform enough to invest money into it. It has huge flaws, no people, etc. The fact of the matter is though, and I keep repeating this, once it gets noticed, it will be hit by fines. And by that time, it will be a huge scandal, with both admins and devs wishing they actually coded the “uninteresting” parts of the app.
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I would usually agree because often FOSS projects are used commercially but I don’t think this standard doesn’t apply here because the Lemmy instances are also non-commercial projects.
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“Users should be able to delete stuff they uploaded” is only something for commercial services?
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“Open source respects your privacy! Lolnope, jk!”
Well, the bare minimum you need to do, is refuse traffic from the EU then. The devs don’t want to do that, but they also don’t want to implement the changes which is illegal and carried huge fines (yes, they can fine you in the US too)
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The fines are only proportional for big corporations. Organizations without revenue can still be fined:
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/
In this case, the processing of data hinges upon the data subject’s consent, which is detailed in article 7.
Imagine a car manufacturer building cars without brakes and then saying ‘This isn’t a problem for the engineers, but for the retailers’. Of course the developers can’t be sued for this. But that’s not the point! The point is that this bug or missing feature or whatever you want to call it jeopardizes the admins upon which this whole ecosystem hinges. I can’t believe that that’s in the devs’ best interests.
They are also proportional to the size of the leak. Small businesses get some leeway, but the approach that devs have had so far is “we don’t care” when it was brought up.
It’s an issue for both. If a software you run can get you fined in both the US and the EU, then devs need to adapt or nobody will be using it. Right now, lemmy is too small for big wigs to notice. It takes one disgruntled user to report the breaches though, and everything can change veeeery quickly.
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Your point is “don’t make our devs do things that are essential for using it in Europe”
I wasn’t talking about some issues on github, I was talking about GDPR. If lemmy is to be used in any way, it can’t behave like some student project thrown together from random bits. Legal is part of that. And there is a lot of it to go through. I get it, it’s not fun at all to code that and they’d rather do some cool new feature instead. But it needs to be done, even if nobody wants to do it. Or, at least people could simply accept the risk of it going really bad.
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Yeaaah, except I don’t care about this platform enough to invest money into it. It has huge flaws, no people, etc. The fact of the matter is though, and I keep repeating this, once it gets noticed, it will be hit by fines. And by that time, it will be a huge scandal, with both admins and devs wishing they actually coded the “uninteresting” parts of the app.
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