Good point. I see a lot of good things coming with GDPR, foremost a realization that its NOT ok to just store personal data without meaningful reasons and abilities to let one know what a company stores about them. It's not perfect, rather ambitious in can cases, but I like how these conversations are now happening more broadly.

It's funny that this comment has 10 upvotes but fell to the bottom of the page. No doubt there's a lot of vested interests against privacy legislation. To the Facebook and Google employees: it's already in the EU, and it's likely coming to the US in some form. If not at the federal level, certainly at the state level.

GDPR is a rare area where I see as many positive and negative opinions on it in communities such as HN. Will be interesting to see how this develops with further fallout from the Facebook story, and with GDPR actually coming up to the deadline for implementation in May