GDPR is Great. And Sucks.

Over the last weeks I have learned a lot about the new GDPR regulation and the changes that will come with it. For the most part, I think this is a great and very welcome change and I believe that it will also unveil a lot of the really bad practices that have happened behind the scenes. I’m definitely looking forward to May 25th and the time after. This is all great.

On the flipside, many things about this regulation aren’t very clear and leave a lot of room for interpretation. If you want to be on the safe side, you might have to make some big compromises and that might not leave you too excited. Especially for sites/companies/people who already try to collect as little data as possible and put ethics at the core of their products, a lot of things have to be added to privacy policies that can make everything sound much more scary to end users than it actually is. Getting Colloq GDPR-ready makes for a good example of this. Stay tuned for some more details on our GDPR experience.