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Comment by jdlshore

5 days ago

Under the GDPR, it’s illegal to treat PII like currency. You can’t gate a service behind PII consent.

Whack. Let consumers and sellers decide what to do with their own data

  • This is a totally foreign idea to the EU. Offensive and crass, even.

    There's something I've learnt from some time in the EU. There is not an innovative, risk-taking, freedom-loving bone in the EU culture -- they exported all those folks to the US. Their homegrown risk takers and innovators inevitably leave because of their suffocating culture around innovation, entrepreneurship, and progress. This is one of the reasons for the staggering amount of brain drain in the EU.

    Most ironically, they sneer on our concept of entrepreneurship/innovation while they lag development by decades and having total and complete dependence on our technology. It is this weird moral high-horse position that amounts to a tactical foot-gun.

    • or maybe they just don't think automated mass surveillance is a worthwhile innovation.

      Like the atom bomb, you know - you shouldn't get to drop one in the middle of the city just because you invented it. Not even if it's very profitable.

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