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Or companies start acting like a sane person would. Not outsourcing communication to a bot without disclosure for example. And do so globally.

Or taking the European GDPR regulations as an example actually caring a little bit more about the user' data and enabling informed consent.

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Agreed, when are you enforcing Article 11/13 in the US? /s

Actually Article 11 is in effect in Germany. Article 13 also.

GDPR is absolutely insane. I was working on a European website where a user would upload a product info along with a photo of the product. I had to abandon it, because I'd have to somehow filter all uploaded content for copyright and other violations, as I'd be liable under this new law.

Ah, I think you're referring to the recent EU copyright directive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...) rather than GDPR.

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