The best and only real way to protect your data is to not give it away in the first place. But that would require you a browser that doesn't leak data like a fi

The best and only real way to protect your data is to not give it away in the first place. But that would require you a browser that doesn't leak data like a firehose or not using the website. The regulation just makes sure Europe stays unimportant in tech. We will always be a secondary market that services get taken to once they've become successful elsewhere. It's not even about any specific regulation anymore. Just the fact that they've been so trigger happy with regulations is enough to chase away investors and startups. I would also like to remind people that the EU did adopt the Data Retention Directive in the past that forced ISPs to keep logs of every website people visited. That kind of soured any belief I had of EU politicians caring about our privacy. >According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive