In my limited view, this is pretty much the case. When I was telling our management team about the GDPR and how it relates to our new European-focused project, the first thing the CEO said was "how do we get around this?"
Management decided we're not gonna comply with the GDPR and just hope nobody notices.
Some of us do work for companies who respect and promote GDPR who are not based in EU, and we're hiring. Leave, that's a perfect example of terrible leadership.
Agreed. When the Volskswagen story broke that was my first repsonse: Management Failure. No matter how you slice it in a company that is run in a hierarchical fashion there is no way that an employee at some level decides to break the law in such a blatant manner without being pressured to do so in some way.
Which in the longer term turned out to be right. I'd love to see Winterkorn behind bars for that one.
Well, that was what VW said from the beginning. Although it was presented as "rogue engineer", the person they originally presented was the head of the entire department, and a VP at VW. And VW is suing Winterkorn in a civil case, too.
> Management decided we're not gonna comply with the GDPR and just hope nobody notices.
Although they don't say it that way, that seems to be what most GDPR advocates are implicitly advising. They keep saying not to panic and shut down your web site or block europeans because and the EU is not going to sue you as a first step, etc etc.
In my limited view, this is pretty much the case. When I was telling our management team about the GDPR and how it relates to our new European-focused project, the first thing the CEO said was "how do we get around this?"
Management decided we're not gonna comply with the GDPR and just hope nobody notices.