Re:GDPR: Why We Stopped Selling Stuff to Europe
by ricardobeat on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:07PM
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Why is it out of proportion? Leaking, exposing or selling personal data can have much worse and immediate effects on someone’s lives than river pollution.
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Re:GDPR: Why We Stopped Selling Stuff to Europe
by peoplewindow on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:18PM
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These rules aren't about leaking data accidentally (everyone already tried to stop that), "exposing" it is vague, not sure what you mean by that.
And as for selling personal data - er, how? People get drinking water from rivers. If they're polluted you can get very nasty symptoms. I've never heard of anyone being sent to hospital because someone sold their data.
At any rate, if the goal was to tackle data trading then there'd be no need for a "right to be forgotten" which is where most of the confusion and ambiguity comes from.