You probably haven't looked then. Despite assumptions elsewhere, I'm from Europe and still live there for example. The idea that everyone loves GDPR is naive. Only today I was working next to someone who was trying to figure out how it applied to her (tiny) business, and getting annoyed by the process. She's just copy/pasting the contents of an email she received into her own mail copy to avoid having to do extra work.
Nothing about GDPR has to do with "obedience to technocratic elites"
No? I think you missed by points then.
The GDPR was created, is enforced by and serves the interests of regulators. It specifies so little it is essentially a direct grant of power to those people - they can do whatever they want within its framework and that framework allows nearly anything.
As for 'technocratic elites', did you see political parties campaigning on this issue? I sure as heck did not. Right now the hot topics in European politics are immigration, terrorism and economic growth. Not data protection.
is in fact about rejecting the ability of institutions which are not democratically accountable to gather personal data and monitor people
Of course companies are democratically accountable - outside of monoplies (rare), you can just not trade with them if you don't like their data handling practices.
Nothing about GDPR has to do with "obedience to technocratic elites"
No? I think you missed by points then.
The GDPR was created, is enforced by and serves the interests of regulators. It specifies so little it is essentially a direct grant of power to those people - they can do whatever they want within its framework and that framework allows nearly anything.
As for 'technocratic elites', did you see political parties campaigning on this issue? I sure as heck did not. Right now the hot topics in European politics are immigration, terrorism and economic growth. Not data protection.
is in fact about rejecting the ability of institutions which are not democratically accountable to gather personal data and monitor people
Of course companies are democratically accountable - outside of monoplies (rare), you can just not trade with them if you don't like their data handling practices.