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GDPR is a good idea, but it seems to be top-down and pushing against megacorp and user alike. As it stands, the law is only making it more expensive to be in th

GDPR is a good idea, but it seems to be top-down and pushing against megacorp and user alike. As it stands, the law is only making it more expensive to be in the data harvesting business. These extra risks and requirements raise the barrier to entry for new firms and so just ends up cementing the market position of existing players. If people start caring enough to actually cancel services that harvest their data, then the harvesting would stop. But it is very easy to underestimate the power of machine learning and correlation, especially when the data being correlated is gently sipped over years.

AndrewDucker 4y ago
"As it stands, the law is only making it more expensive to be in the data harvesting business" That's at least partially the intention, and I'm entirely in favour of it.
- maccard 4y ago
  Agreed. At my 25 person company it gives me a lever to pull in conversations about data - when someone asks can I have X, I can pull the GDPR card as a reason not to do it.
rendall 4y ago
> the law is only making it more expensive to be in the data harvesting business Great. "Data harvesting" without explicit consent should not be a thing. > If people start caring enough to actually cancel services that harvest their data, then the harvesting would stop. I think that's quite naive. Much harvesting comes from websites that share data with each other about individual user behavior. There is no service to cancel unless you mean "browsing the web". NOYB has more information, it seems: https://noyb.eu/en/projects https://noyb.eu/en/projects
adhesive_wombat 4y ago
> pushing against megacorp and user alike No, it's pushing against megacorps (and corps) and they're trying to gaslight everyone into thinking it's pushing against users by annoying the users on purpose and telling them the GDPR forced them do it (while also breaking the law and still hovering up as much data as they can while they think they can get away with it).

AndrewDucker 4y ago

"As it stands, the law is only making it more expensive to be in the data harvesting business" That's at least partially the intention, and I'm entirely in favour of it.

maccard 4y ago
Agreed. At my 25 person company it gives me a lever to pull in conversations about data - when someone asks can I have X, I can pull the GDPR card as a reason not to do it.

rendall 4y ago

> the law is only making it more expensive to be in the data harvesting business Great. "Data harvesting" without explicit consent should not be a thing. > If people start caring enough to actually cancel services that harvest their data, then the harvesting would stop. I think that's quite naive. Much harvesting comes from websites that share data with each other about individual user behavior. There is no service to cancel unless you mean "browsing the web". NOYB has more information, it seems: https://noyb.eu/en/projects https://noyb.eu/en/projects

adhesive_wombat 4y ago

> pushing against megacorp and user alike No, it's pushing against megacorps (and corps) and they're trying to gaslight everyone into thinking it's pushing against users by annoying the users on purpose and telling them the GDPR forced them do it (while also breaking the law and still hovering up as much data as they can while they think they can get away with it).