The GDPR is one of the regulations that actually seems to help on a daily basis.
23andMe is going bankrupt and now a good part of the US is having their DNA sold to the highest bidder.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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Stay one step ahead of the enemies and protect your privacy now, fellow Europeans.
Cool, money is more important than freedom anyway./s
Europe needs to follow the USian example. Shining city on a hill and all that. Get rid of all of your regulations and protections and Europe will be as great again as America! 🤡
Ban privacy invasive business practices instead of putting the burden on citizens to opt in/opt out. This is about rights of a European citizen not to be constantly under surveillance, not about consumers rights to sign away our rights in a contract.
What?!? Please no! Can someone explain to me how this will help the businesses, because I don't see the downsides from GDPR?
they'll be able to use our data in capitalist pig mode
It's super easy to be GDPR compliant. It just costs money.
Especially if youre actively making it much more difficult to implement than is necessary!
In theory you just need to have a way for people to contact you, like an email address. And then when you get an email you just need to handle their data according to the GDPR rules.
I have a website with user data and I'm perfectly GDPR compliant, just by having an email address available for contact and manually deleting their data if they ask for it.
The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these "cutbacks" will be the adequate reforms however.
These cutbacks are completely stupid imho. The EU is undoing decades of good work by jumping on this dumb deregulation band wagon. I guess it was always run by a bunch of neoliberals..
As someone with a lot of time spent in Europe and the US over the last 30-40 years, it seems like Europe is often happy to jump on the bandwagon of America, they just want someone else to go first. I also think American music and cultural exports are spreading our cultural degeneracy around the world for a long time and Germans slurp it up. I really hope the better education system will immunize them against the worst of it, but the rise of the AfD makes me doubt.
lol.
With the current trend I feel like the neonazis AfD will put us right back to Temu-Hitler (Trump) and Putin.
So dumbing it down then? If privacy and security is built into your product and you're not using people's data for nefarious purposes its very easy to comply with.
I'm not European and even I despise von der Leyen. She's one of the most cynical people on Earth.
Not surprising, since she was a big figure in the German conservative party. They're all terrible human beings
GDPR is a good goal, but the implementation is hell. There has to be a way to make well intentioned policies not turn into the nightmare fuel that it inevitably always turns into.
Implementation is easy. It requires respect for human beings though.
It my personal experience I found it all extremely convoluted... And I like gdpr