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If companies successfully argue that maximising revenue is a legitimate interest and thus, don't need users consent, then the GPDR will worth less the paper it was written on.

I would be extremely surprised if the EU goes through all this tome, effort, and money just to let corporations continue with business as usual

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Eu cookie law is one prior example of this. That worked out to “business as usual” in the end, didn’t it?

Think of the GDPR as a bug-fix release to remove the loopholes those legal hackers used.

Nope. It was a nice step that showed everyone how even the most unexpected website tracks you with some cookies.

> I would be extremely surprised if the EU goes through all this tome, effort, and money just to let corporations continue with business as usual

I wouldn't. EU is all about bureaucracy and hordes of civil servants doing meaningless jobs. If GDPR becomes fruitless like Cookie Law, then they'll say tough luck, hire more civil servants and start working on another useless law.

There was a lot of lobbying done to water down the GDPR.

But on the other hand, corporations are all about unscrupulous behaviour and doing the minimum possible (if that) to claim they respect the law. If the GDPR works, they'll just hire more lobbyists.

> I would be extremely surprised if the EU goes through all this tome, effort, and money just to let corporations continue with business as usual

trust me, you didn't see what the eu already gone through, just to keep existing.

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