[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/23/2018 2:29 PM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:08:21 UTC+1, Jan-Erik Söderholm  wrote:
>> Den 2018-05-23 kl. 16:40, skrev seasoned_geek:
>>
>>> The financial and criminal penalties are being raised world wide even
>>> now. The GDPR is just the beginning.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
>>>
>>
>> GDPR is about how and why companies collect/store/process personal data.
>>
>> GDPR has absolutelly nothing to do with TCP/IP as such.
>>
>> Your posts just gets more and more weird. Or entertaining...
> 
> 
> GDPR penalties, if enforced effectively, might provide
> a focus on system robustness that appears to have been
> lacking in much software marketing and system development
> in recent years (not specifically on VMS).

Not much.

The security requirements in GDPR are rather basic.

The companies will get a lot of new obligations
towards the people whose data they store.

And some of them will require significant changes
to software.

But more robust? I doubt it!

> One reason for that is that seasoned_geek's quoted
> 20million Euro penalty isn't correct - that would be
> peanuts in corporate business terms anyway.
> 
> The actual maximum GDPR penalty is
> "Up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover – whichever
> is higher." (lots of places to look it up).

Yes.

> 4% of annual global turnover might even give Facebook,
> Google, and friends something to think about, never mind
> the affected subsidiaries of outfits like Equifax, and many
> many others.

Given how little GDPR focus on security I doubt there will
be many successful prosecutions of companies for
lack of security under GDPR.

It is too much selling rubber band by the inch.

Equifax would have been in clear violation of GDPR by
waiting more than a month to inform people.

Arne