Let me just respond to this in short: No. They're not circular.
The same vague claims keep getting repeated, with absolutely nothing to back them up. Not even a "here's the problem with the law in our case" super fuzzy high level overview. It's always about the effort of adhering to the law without any discussion about why these companies are facing difficulties in the first place. Not the actual difficulty with implementing the law, just the vague effort they've put up with.
Hundreds of thousands of businesses have not had issue with the law. Suddenly some guy on HN with two "top tier" law firms at his back faces this unimaginably heavy burden and extreme obstacles when trying to adhere to the law. Sounds like a nightmare, in the sense that it never happened.
OP's post and the many others like it are just typical American business favoritism against any kind of regulation masquerading as a personal True Story (TM). I still remember when cookie warnings were "hard" to do and businesses actively implemented them in obviously shit ways, in bad faith with the regulations. It's so obviously contrived for a particular audience it's kind of absurd it immediately doesn't get flagged.
Are you basically asking "Why does no one want to share specific details of their company's difficulty complying with a giant new regulatory framework?"?
Surely the issue is harmless, and has nothing to do with the stuff GDPR is legislating against, right? Why not just share a general, fuzzy overview?
I am pretty sure that's what they're asking for. I didn't see a request for specific details. Just some high level details, rather than "we've had to spend so much money/time => clearly bad".
We’re told not to talk about any details (even high level) of this sort by legal because anything we put on the internet could be used against the company in court even if it seems harmless to us. If you want to find out about the difficulties just find an engineer working at a major company and ask them about it in person.
The same vague claims keep getting repeated, with absolutely nothing to back them up. Not even a "here's the problem with the law in our case" super fuzzy high level overview. It's always about the effort of adhering to the law without any discussion about why these companies are facing difficulties in the first place. Not the actual difficulty with implementing the law, just the vague effort they've put up with.
Hundreds of thousands of businesses have not had issue with the law. Suddenly some guy on HN with two "top tier" law firms at his back faces this unimaginably heavy burden and extreme obstacles when trying to adhere to the law. Sounds like a nightmare, in the sense that it never happened.
OP's post and the many others like it are just typical American business favoritism against any kind of regulation masquerading as a personal True Story (TM). I still remember when cookie warnings were "hard" to do and businesses actively implemented them in obviously shit ways, in bad faith with the regulations. It's so obviously contrived for a particular audience it's kind of absurd it immediately doesn't get flagged.