It's ironic to me that the EU led the charge in cookie notices and is now pushing this. Although one is privacy from corporations and the other is privacy from the government.
It's (the EU's) authoritative to companies by suppressing them with penalties and bueacratic laws, but allows itself (the governments and states) unending tolerance in whatever it does.
> but allows itself (the governments and states) unending tolerance in whatever it does.
Could you clarify what are these horrible things the EU has done that you're referring to?
And soon what's coming is even worse: digital markets act. Which allows the EU to fine companies up to 10% of their yearly revenue.
That's just the obvious stuff that I can write about. I live here and have experienced it personally how Germany treats businesses.
I have high hopes digital markets act will be as good.
It's hard to imagine that his data is so important, that he's so wanted, that people care about his so much, that GDPR will make any difference whatsoever on his life. On the contrary, the world is burning, clock is ticking, and you're complaining about me being aggressive on HN?
Are you saying that you liked how Facebook and Google could cross-site track every single (logged-in or not) European and use that for targeted ads as well as share it with the NSA?
Thank GDPR (and Apple) for stopping that around ~2018.
Yeah, a couple small good things in GDPR doesn't outweigh the bad and damage. Not even close.
I'll state that I'm happy that your libertarian/anarcho-capitalistic views on regulations, taxes and government is an extreme position here and not the status quo.
you got it backwards
eu: cookies/tracking is bad, don't do it. if you _really_ need to, you have to ask.
big-tech: fuck this! of course we need to track users. we're just gonna ask everyone all the time and put the blame back on you.
It's one and the same thing.
They disregard property rights and order everyone about.
The reason this seems strange to you is you didn't care when they did that to Web site operators.
'Authoritarian supporters of privacy' is a position it's possible to take.
Which begs the question of whether democratic/authoritarian or surveillance/privacy is the more important characteristic.