But it will be celebrated as a heroic victory because “privacy good. Business bad. I want a banana.”
But it will be celebrated as a heroic victory because “privacy good. Business bad. I want a banana.”
As you proceed to state absolutely nothing. Before GDPR my information was in a bunch of databases managed by other people. After GDPR my information is in the same databases managed by the same people. Except now they have legalese stating this totally fucking obvious fact.
Before GDPR if my information was hacked and used to hurt me, the business was not liable. After GDPR they still are not liable. Oh and if they violate the GDPR the state gets money, but the victims don’t. Such amazing protection of consumer data...
The EU really isn't engaged in a three decade campaign to destroy American companies.
Two nice timelines:
https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/legis...
https://iapp.org/resources/article/a-brief-history-of-the-ge...