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Recently a company I trust was sold to a company I utterly dislike and have zero trust in. Before the sale was executed, as a EU citizen I was informed that my

Recently a company I trust was sold to a company I utterly dislike and have zero trust in. Before the sale was executed, as a EU citizen I was informed that my consent was required for the transfer of my personal data to the new owners. I did not consent. My data is not in the hands of the new owners. And under GDPR, I was able to request all the data they had on myself in order to make an archive of it before the execution of the sale. None of this was possible a year ago. Know your rights, use them, you'll get to appreciate them.

duxup 8y ago
I think that is great. But I think it might be a case where Troy notes, you're educated on the topic, and like cookie tracking, you probabbly could have dealt with cookie tracking before GDPR too on your own. I'm not at all sure that applies to more than a handful of people. If that's the case, GDPR is not helping most people.
- scrollaway 8y ago
  I entirely agree with the premise that citizens don't know their rights well enough. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be available to them. Most people don't know how to read nutrition labels either; they're still there and it's a good thing they're there. Do you think they should be removed simply because people don't know how to read them? I can make the same argument as to why I believe open source is important. Most people don't know how to read source code.
  - duxup 8y ago
    I'm not saying remove them, but I wouldn't argue they're useful if people did not read them.... I've seen nutrition labels reworked repeatedly. Privacy laws aren't going to be helpful if most people don't know. Even if I opt out on say my phone... it doesn't matter if they get much of the same data form my friend's phone, about me... I think there's a lot of GDPR banner waving and it's really not helping. People think any criticism of GDPR is a suggestion that it shouldn't exist. You can belive in the ideas, and think GDPR has failed too.
    - scrollaway 8y ago
      As I said in other parts of the thread, I agree GDPR still needs work and improvements. > People think any criticism of GDPR is a suggestion that it shouldn't exist Untrue; what I do repeatedly see though is people who think that just because GDPR has flaws, the whole thing needs to be ripped to shreds and we were better off without it.

duxup 8y ago

I think that is great. But I think it might be a case where Troy notes, you're educated on the topic, and like cookie tracking, you probabbly could have dealt with cookie tracking before GDPR too on your own. I'm not at all sure that applies to more than a handful of people. If that's the case, GDPR is not helping most people.

scrollaway 8y ago
I entirely agree with the premise that citizens don't know their rights well enough. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be available to them. Most people don't know how to read nutrition labels either; they're still there and it's a good thing they're there. Do you think they should be removed simply because people don't know how to read them? I can make the same argument as to why I believe open source is important. Most people don't know how to read source code.
- duxup 8y ago
  I'm not saying remove them, but I wouldn't argue they're useful if people did not read them.... I've seen nutrition labels reworked repeatedly. Privacy laws aren't going to be helpful if most people don't know. Even if I opt out on say my phone... it doesn't matter if they get much of the same data form my friend's phone, about me... I think there's a lot of GDPR banner waving and it's really not helping. People think any criticism of GDPR is a suggestion that it shouldn't exist. You can belive in the ideas, and think GDPR has failed too.
  - scrollaway 8y ago
    As I said in other parts of the thread, I agree GDPR still needs work and improvements. > People think any criticism of GDPR is a suggestion that it shouldn't exist Untrue; what I do repeatedly see though is people who think that just because GDPR has flaws, the whole thing needs to be ripped to shreds and we were better off without it.