alt Hacker NewsI'm so tired of this talking point. Either follow our laws or get the fuck out of our market.
There's no special right for American companies to ignore our rules and when they get fined for breaking them, that's just rule of law.
Maybe there's been enough regulatory capture that big corps can ignore laws on the other side of the pond, but for now, we are still a society of law and justice.
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Reading the Guardian article - it feels that the decision is weakly motivated. It is not clear exactly what rules Uber broke.
>“Uber has committed serious infringements” by deactivating driver accounts without warning or human involvement, the organization’s deputy chair Monique Verdier said in a statement.
>“From one moment to the next they no longer had any income … A computer should not make decisions on its own that have (such) major consequences.”
If you manage to extract usable info from that quote kudos. To me it looks like regulator going berserk in reading the unholy mess that is GDPR.
And it’s also incredibly tiring to force legal paradigms of one country over another. Don’t like it? Don’t operate. Please don’t operate and whine how the country is not bending over backwards to your demands.