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This is more or less all wrong. GDPR is not there to make companies pay and keep on committing crime, but rather to make them correct their business to be compl
by thefz 4y ago
This is more or less all wrong. GDPR is not there to make companies pay and keep on committing crime, but rather to make them correct their business to be compliant.
Fines are laughably low.
Besides, the whole GDPR is in place to protect European citizens from abuse of a fundamental right, which is privacy, from commercial and not commercial actors.
If you are willing to give out everything about you for the latest new iToy and not receive a cent, be my guest, nobody is going to stop you in America. But here, we have regulations in place to prevent the overselling and oversharing of customer's own data.
Besides, "Europe can't do computers", Linux is a Finnish creation, as an example. You are confusing factories that produce hardware with the software that runs on it.