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> I allow you to read my content in exchange for money or traffic. Hold on, when did I consent to you monetizing my traffic? I just want to read your content.
by drstewart 4y ago
> I allow you to read my content in exchange for money or traffic.
Hold on, when did I consent to you monetizing my traffic? I just want to read your content. Pay me a share of the money and then we'll see if I want to allow you to use my traffic to make money.
- gumballindie 4y agoAn excellent point. That's why we have GDPR in europe to prevent me from using you as a source of income without your consent.
- salawat 4y agoOr, knowingly/unknowingly allowing someone else to. Really GDPR is the implementation of an actual legal requirement around the old concept of professional discretion. I.e. my business records with a European Citizen are not valid targets of subsequent unrelated transactions without consent; something which is importantly defined as not being granted by default, or invalidated when obtained through deceptive means. That the rest of the tech world was so enraptured by the fact that suddenly, handing off people's business records to somebody else no longer involved literally moving boxes of paper, and threw professional discretion to the winds is more an indictment of the state of mind and sense of entitlement of the typical tech-enabled business class as a whole than a condemnation of the allegedly "backward" European Union. t. American Technologist actually proud of the EU for standing up for common decency, and recognizing exploitive behavior when they see it.