GDPR

“Like GDPR, which first of all has now become a global standard, so I don't think it's specific as much to Europe anymore, but You know, that definitely has inhibited many tech businesses, so there's always nuance and shades of gray.”

“GDPR really hurts marketing companies financially.”

“And the added benefit to that is, by the way, that you can be GDPR compliant. You can actually delete data. So if, you know, so, you know, if you're a company like a legal company and somebody deletes a document, you can just delete it from the vector database…”

“So we can't really remove information from them, which is kind of tricky from a GDPR perspective.”

“We've lost months of productivity over something silly called GDPR and et cetera, right?”

“So, so China, they have, like, a key advantage that, like, there is no GDPR or very few regulation internally and so the data quality they have and the amounts, both the quality and quantity of data is incredible in China.”

“One default stance that we have is that within a certain deployment and sometimes the deployment is for the entire company, certain, sometimes the deployment is for a certain line of business within the company, within a certain deployment, discovery of the da…”

“We, I mean, we're exclusively focused on the personalized outreach way of doing things. And, you know, part of the reason that we do that in the UK and in the European market is to demonstrate that legitimate interest that's necessary to be compliant with GDPR…”

“U S is going to have their own version of this. Other countries are going to have their own version of this, and they're always going to evolve.”

“So, I think OneTrust is, like, Over two hundred million in annual recurring revenue. It's probably the fastest growing enterprise SaaS company in the last 10 years.”

“We went into Europe when everybody fled Europe because we wanted to be GDPR compliant, and we have figured out a way to maneuver that space.”

“If somebody says they make it easier for Companies to deal with GDPR and CCPA and be compliant, understand what data they have. Like, I'm listening. I think we would actually welcome more of that in the portfolio.”

“Users flock to a simple product. They get so excited by something new, novel, simple, shiny, and then that new simple product that enjoyed its launch on product hunt and, you know, has all this really great simplicity that people are compelled by. That new pro…”

“Well, in legal terms, there's a thing called long-arm jurisdiction, and this is probably one of the longest of the long-arm jurisdictions, and what I mean by that is a situation where a local court can actually assert jurisdiction over someone in another state…”

“Yeah, I really agree with that, because, like, when you're at a big company, and you're hit with GDPR, like, you, I know exactly how this is going to work. Like, you've got all the subsidiaries, and you know, too. Well, you're paralyzed, because you have to, y…”

“And with the data protection principles under GDPR, the one that I've heard the regulators focusing on the most is transparency. So they are putting a huge amount of work in the making sure individual citizens in Europe understand that they have the right to k…”

“Ultimately, I think what's going to happen is that when it comes time for there to be complaints or problems, what I think the EU regulators are sort of counting on is that there'll be a bottom-up view, and like, people will sort of police this on behalf of th…”

“There is one escape route from GDPR, which is the provision in the regulation, which is also the same as the 95 directive, which says that data that are fully anonymized, meaning that no individuals can be identified are outside, outside the scope of GDPR. So …”

“So I think they're going to look at the implementation of these as well as whether or not that you have them.”

“As vague as the GDPR might appear to an engineer in some places, it got very specific very quickly on penalties.”

“Well, I have to say, I do recommend that folks take a look at it, because working backwards from there, they actually tell you what they care about when they're going to potentially assess a fine, which is, you know, is there negligence? Was it intentional? So…”

“GDPR is a regulation, and right now there is no certification for it. The regulation does have language around certification in it, but nothing's actually been developed. It's referenced, but it's not developed.”

“And I think everybody's going to be shocked at just how much potential there is for risk that they weren't really thinking about.”

“If you're at a smaller company and you need somebody to lead your GDPR compliance project, then, and you don't have a, you know, person in charge of compliance, then my advice is to look for what I think of as your risk sentinel. ... You want the people who ca…”

“GitHub is a great company, but it's a developer company. It's a developer tool loved by developers. You show me a developer that's concerned about SOC two or GDP or you know, I'll buy a bottle of Dom Perignon. They just aren't.”

“So that is a tailwind that we expect to see in a really positive way for the next two, three, four years of the business.”

“Often when we think about ethics, we think about the regulations, GDPR, the Privacy Act, all of those things, and we treat that as the ceiling. It is not, it's the floor.”

“You know, we'll see more tokenization of data and usage of tokens instead of actual PII data to limit the potential issues and breach issues and things, and we'll see data staying in Europe.”