Comment by matheusmoreira
3 years ago
Yeah. Information should be a massive liability. The more they know, the more it should cost them. These companies should be scrambling to forget everything about us before we're even out the door, not amassing information into huge dossiers to sell to the highest bidder. The unapologetic audacity of these people never fails to impress me.
GDPR has a major problem though. It allows use of data for "legitimate" purposes. Of course, all of these businesses think of themselves and everything they're doing as perfectly legitimate. I wouldn't be surprised if some lobbyist worked that loophole in.
> Of course, all of these businesses think of themselves and everything they're doing as perfectly legitimate.
That wouldn't be a major issue if privacy authorities actually a) acted on complaints in a timely manner, b) issued the "effective, proportionate and dissuasive" fines that the law requires.
Most importantly, I believe some DPAs have already stated that "legitimate interest" cannot justify online advertisement. Now they "just" need to take a snapshot of the most popular 10000 websites in their country, then start issuing fines.