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Government officials created an untenable law in the name of the technological boogey man?! </mild-shock>

• AstralStorm 7y ago
  Not bogey. Misuse of personal days it's happening daily, but the law is not exactly super great. Better than nothing I suppose.
  • drusepth 7y ago
    I think whether the current implementation of GDPR is better than nothing is still up for debate. The intention is mostly good, but the execution leaves an immense amount to be desired (as evidenced by common threads like this) and disproportionately affects/burdens small businesses.
• fixitfixit 7y ago
  Hey now. Mass surveillance, data breaches, and non-consensual data sale are absolutely issues, and will continue to be. This isn’t a boogey man, this is real, and it’s entirely the technology industry’s fault. Maybe we wouldn’t have to deal with the GDPR if we treated data as a liability from the beginning.
  • Silhouette 7y ago
    This isn’t a boogey man, this is real, and it’s entirely the technology industry’s fault. I agree there are real dangers, but I don't think blaming it entirely on the tech industry is fair. The financial services industry has been profiling as much as it could get away with forever. Government security services and the like obviously do this sort of thing as well. Modern technology has made these things easier and surely provides a generous source of additional data to both of the above groups, and targeted ads have created another not entirely welcome variation on the theme, but modern technology is hardly the original source of creepy data-hoarding behaviour.