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Re:Google Emerges as Early Winner from Europe’s New Data Pri... by klez on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:17AM (#17196460)
> We made murder illegal and now nobody gets murdered

No, we made murder illegal and now we have a system to deal with murderers when they kill someone.

Out of analogy, we made non-consensual data collection illegal, and now we have a mean to handle the situation when it arises.

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