Your snarky attitude is the real embarrassment, and you misread into what my feelings are about GDPR.

Agreed that our company handled it poorly -- and that's on our leadership (which is a much much longer story) -- Note: my opinions are not the opinion of my employer.

But your real anger should be directed at your technologist/programmer peers who work at Facebook and Google who take six figure salaries and compromise moral dignity, not at media outlets, or small companies -- and from reading your comments on HN -- we can agree on that.