<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>closeparen</author><text>Consider lawful basis. Does your processing fall under the lawful basis you think it does? Who the hell knows. Making an educated guess as to what the regulators and courts will think is legal scholarship, one of the most expensive professional services money can buy. And even if you get billed for hundreds of hours of the most premium legal minds thinking about it they can still be wrong.&lt;p&gt;Words like “reasonable” and “legitimate” in the law are not something it is safe for a layperson to reason about. They have specific meanings depending on the nuances of case law, judicial understanding of legislative intent, ideological leanings of the judge you happen to draw, etc.&lt;p&gt;No company is competent at this, some just have enough money at stake and enough to spend on lawyers that they’re willing to risk it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m12k</author><text>‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’&lt;p&gt;TBH I&amp;#x27;m glad companies stay away from my data if they don&amp;#x27;t know how to get consent, store data securely, or even what those things mean.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK to depart from GDPR</title><url>https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/uk-to-depart-from-gdpr/5107685.article</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>Did you read the law and then work on complying with it?&lt;p&gt;Spirit of the law is great. Implementation and end result is a typical bureaucracy mess, with not much benefit for end user, that functions mostly as a way for government to have a leverage over companies for non-compliance, whenever they want to put pressure on them.</text><parent_chain><item><author>m12k</author><text>‘too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them’&lt;p&gt;TBH I&amp;#x27;m glad companies stay away from my data if they don&amp;#x27;t know how to get consent, store data securely, or even what those things mean.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>UK to depart from GDPR</title><url>https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/uk-to-depart-from-gdpr/5107685.article</url></story>