Tech Regulations Challenges
The cluster discusses how regulations often lag behind technological advancements, are difficult to interpret and comply with, and hinder innovation, with debates on improving regulatory clarity, adaptability, and enforcement.
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Regulations don't much care about what's technically possible.
Current regulations weren't written when this was feasible. Regulators are always playing catch-up game.
I think the are two kinds of regulations. There is the kind that is written down clearly. I can read it; understand what I'm supposed to do and not do and act accordingly and be done with it. There is also the other kind where I need to hire an expert to interpret the regulation and then file an application with the government and if it gets rejected after a long time I have no recourse but to go back to the same agency again. Obviously the first kind of good and the second kind should be a
That's a failure of the tools, not the regulations.
Regulations are for companies incapable of releasing features that regulators don't understand.
Getting the regulatory piece right is also difficult...
The implementation is trivial. But the regulations aren't.
Consider that regulations are hard to get right and all the people responsible might not have known in advance all the edge cases that were possible. After all, if they knew it in advance, the regulation would have been made before it ever became a problem in the first place
You're right that it wouldn't work technically. But legal compliance doesn't always make things work the regulators want them to.
Regulations should be transparent, with link to original cases and deduction process documented. We are not telepaths.