This is about ethics primarily.
If you don't care about ethics then expect an unethical economy.
If you don't care about ethics then expect an unethical economy.
I think this is the wrong approach, EU should try to make it easier for European businesses to compete with US-based ones.
But in the end we have another layer of bureaucracy on top of all the things a US startup has to worry about, and those mostly non-technical/non-innovative people want to be a part of the picture.
Tracking people around the internet. To follow them everywhere they go and save their personal information, their political ideology, etc. It is not innovation, that's just stepping over personal rights.
> I don't think it is about ethics, it is about control.
Yes. About giving back control of citizen privacy to the citizens themselves. It is not the government that decides who can own your data or when to delete it. It is European citizens that decide individually who should have their data and whom can not.
> EU should try to make it easier for European businesses to compete with US-based ones.
If you give away freedom for economic gain, you don't deserve either one.
What gives you the right to deny others the right to trade their personal information as they see fit?
What gives you the right to force me to trade in my personal information?
Just look at how many people were behind the facebook lawsuits in Europe to see that those are not developers.
What gives you the right to decide that corporations are free to use my personal information for whatever they please?
Well the EU seem to think that not all of this innovation is good innovation and the law specifically targets this.
I don't want US innovation. Thanks for the offer.
No. Can't. I can't do my job without Google and my social life wouldn't survive without Facebook (messenger, groups, events). Using these services is not voluntary at this point.
Of course it is. You just don't want to because it's not convenient.
If you never get on Facebook again, what? You have to write snail-mail letters or use group MMS?
How has HN become an argument for why eating food is not in fact mandatory?
Like the fucking plague. You should too.
Plenty of us do.