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 "businesses are unhappy with the GDPR"
Good.
(although if someone wanted to modify the GDPR just a little bit to stop every website from spamming me about cookies, that'd be okay)
@ssundell And they're not going to stop collecting data without laws to make them stop. We all know they're doing it. And if we don't like it, our only real option is to stop using the Internet.
So the least GDPR could do is either start being stricter so they cannot collect the data in the first place, or ease the requirements so end users aren't constantly spammed with pop-ups.
If nothing else: require browsers to store a universal default and have websites use that.
Raphael Albert
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Sami Sundell