The guy apart from crying without ever having read those 80 pages (english language text), doesn't see the big picture. The fact that I can force Facebook, Google, etc. to tell me what they are doing with my data (which I btw had given consent to treat like yesterday's newspaper), and subsequently asking the various Cambridge Analytica's the same question, gives the people a power they never had.
Now they do.
He wants to leave the game? Feel free! He wants people to be completely powerless? Well.. the kitchen has a door. Feel free to open and leave if it gets too hot.
This is the classic unintended effect of this kind of regulation. It is harder for small and new companies to comply and crowds them out, further entrenching the power and control of Facebook and Google.
Yes, regulation changes. Companies that infringe consumer privacy cannot continue business as usual and will be hurt. It's a good thing.
McDonald's has it easier to comply with food safety regulations than the cozy mom and pop cafe down the street. Would you be willing to shit your guts out because the ambiance is better there?
> McDonald's has it easier to comply with food safety regulations than the cozy mom and pop cafe down the street. Would you be willing to shit your guts out because the ambiance is better there?
People cooking for themselves at home aren't required to comply with (the same) food safety regulations. Obviously, you never eat at home or at the home of a friend or relative either, right?
Similarly how food safety regulations don't apply to people's homes, neither does GDPR. It does not apply to processing personal data for personal usage.
People collecting phone numbers in their personal phonebooks aren't required to comply with data security and privacy regulations.
Actually, it's easier for small and especially new companies to comply. Now, maybe they don't want to, but I don't feel any kind of sympathy for cost cutting on my privacy.
What you say it's an unintended side effect, I think is very much intended. That's why the GDPR (if it doesn't fail for other reasons) is a very welcome regulation.
That's true, but frankly I'd rather that the large companies I already deal with be forced to interact on better terms than encourage competition by well-meaning startups.
Once upon a time Facebook was the fresh new competition. Once upon a time Google took pains to maintain their "Don't be evil" motto. Everyone starts out starry-eyed, keen to destroy the oppressive incumbent. Very few stay that way.
So the answer is a blanket law that affects all startups big and small. Think Google & Facebook are going to go out of business because of this? No. Think it’s going to be more difficult and risky for startups?
You clearly don’t run a startup that is affected by these rules. Use cookie? Use Google analytics? Have emails and passwords? Send email to your userlist? Now figure out all the legal consent language, and write your own privacy policy that doesn’t get you a $20m fine for running a blog...
How does knowing what data Facebook has on you change anything? You already know the data they have by virtue of the fact that you give it to them. I just don’t get what damage this protects you from?
What about the data they have on people without accounts on their service, but who they track across sites and through friends? I can keep myself from having an account, but I can’t stop my family and friends, and I can only do my best to block their trackers. I’d like to know what shadow profiles they have on me, despite the fact that I gave them nothing.
To be clear before I answer, you’re acknowledging that this isn’t actually just about data willingly given, right?
What does it change? Not much just by knowing, but it can allow for change, including exercising a right to delete that data under GDPR. That is a positive change in my opinion.
Having data on someone doesn’t constitute any kind of damage. So I don’t understand how I benefit from this at all. If my data is hacked, I’m not compensated. If my data is misused, I’m not compensated. Nothing has really changed to protect me from actual damages resulting from personal data collection. But apparently lots of small businesses and startups are now hurt, and Facebook is in a stronger position to collect PII.
Now they do.
He wants to leave the game? Feel free! He wants people to be completely powerless? Well.. the kitchen has a door. Feel free to open and leave if it gets too hot.