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The difference here is that the GDPR is widely believed to be aimed at Facebook, Google, and friends, and those companies are a threat to privacy partly because
by strken 9y ago
The difference here is that the GDPR is widely believed to be aimed at Facebook, Google, and friends, and those companies are a threat to privacy partly because of the enormous scale of their data collection in addition to the intrinsically private nature of the data itself.
The question, then, is whether a small "business" that's closer to a charity or a resume padder needs to be regulated in the same way as Facebook when it doesn't collect data on the same scale. I don't think this applies to medical startups, where human lives are at the same risk regardless of how many customers are using the tech.
- skybrian 9y agoHave there been any exemptions for smaller businesses? If not, it seems pretty clear the GDPR is targeted at them too. The online ad-tech industry is pretty fragmented [1] and widespread data-sharing would certainly be a problem even without the larger companies. It's not like Google or Facebook invented it; this goes back to nearly the beginning of the web. And the offline component goes back even further. [1] http://static.adweek.com/adweek.com-prod/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/luma-1200.png http://static.adweek.com/adweek.com-prod/wp-content/uploads/...