German outlets are reporting about a study done by lobbyists that (miraculously) found that businesses are unhappy with the GDPR.
Obviously, this still hasn't been said enough: the GDPR's purpose isn't making businesses happy! Its purpose is to protect our rights. It's necessary because far too many businesses won't respect our privacy unless they're forced to!
If running their business responsibly is such a huge burden for them, maybe they should let someone else do it.
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@r_alb the GDPR is great - I mean it could be better enforced -
..but so many work conversations where someone wants to collect and retain data without even having a clear reason ...
The GDPR gives those of us in the room who don't want it something solid to point to.
Compliance is lax but exists
@sean @r_alb YEP. I used to work at a web scraping company as a solution architect - helping people agree on sane projects collect data from the web. (This was pre-chatbot era, thank goodness - we never willingly facilitated creative-work theft)
The GDPR and the weaker California law were amazing, I loved them. It reduced the number of times I had to stick my neck out and refuse to work on skeevy clients 
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