Mastodawn

@Em0nM4stodon it is from the regulations though, the regulation is toothless.

@shironeko @Em0nM4stodon GDPR is not toothless, and has been enforced on big and small tech.

@AeonCypher @Em0nM4stodon and what did that do, more cookie banners?

@shironeko @Em0nM4stodon I know for absolute certainty that corporations big and small are afraid of violating these laws and that engineering departments in any company >1m revenue have spent extensive resources on compliance.

#GDPR is, quite frankly, the most successful piece of civil-rights legislation that's been past in the 21st century.

How do I know? Because I've personally been working with companies on navigating these regulations for a decade. My current income is specifically from compliance engineering.

There's an enormous amount that this regulation did, and it would be hard to overstate how much more fucked we'd all be right now without it.

It is probably the only reason the ADF hasn't taken over Germany.

@AeonCypher @Em0nM4stodon okay that checks out, the only people that benefited from GDPR are lawyers.

@shironeko @Em0nM4stodon You, personally, have benefitted from it.

Like, I am beginning to wonder if you are actually here specifically to push a right-wing agenda by trolling as a clueless leftie.

@shironeko @Em0nM4stodon Here's the easiest way to frame it.

If it weren't working, Billionaires wouldn't be fighting it (and the EU AI Act) right now in the EU Data Omnibus legislation.

You are literally repeating and falling for right wing propaganda intentionally designed to direct your ire at the actual legislation protecting your rights.

The megacorps want nothing more than to make everyone cynical about regulations and laws that favor common people over them getting piles of cash.

@AeonCypher @Em0nM4stodon billionaires will fight any regulations that they didn't wrote, they want control, it doesn't matter if they can skirt around the law anyway. my issue is gdpr is easily skirted around by annoying everyone, make it stop.

@shironeko @Em0nM4stodon It's not skirted around. Just click no.

Jesus.

Also, GDPR does _WAY_ more than cookie banners. Even if you click yes, they _still_ have to protect your PII in ways they never did before.

@AeonCypher @Em0nM4stodon I know they have my data (and everyone else's data) because they're still in business, they are in the business of selling data!

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@shironeko @Em0nM4stodon They don't need your data specifically. 40% of visitors accept the Cookie Banner by default.

@AeonCypher @Em0nM4stodon actually I do one thing still, assuming this 40% figure reflects reality somewhat. How much "unique" data do you or I have? very little. Most of the data that I care about are shared with some people in my life, it's sort of like genes except even more interconnected.

If I have the dna sequences of 40% of the people in your family tree, guess what I have? basically your dna sequences as well. Say I have 40% of the people's door bell videos on your street, do I actually need the video from your doorbell specifically to tell who went into your home? not really. mass surveillance is a collective problem, individual consent is pretty much useless.