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Ad firm plans to use people’s data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill
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Welp, good luck.
GDPR can be painful for developers, but it is excellent for people.
I hope your government and laws are for the people and by the people (or whatever the phrasing is).
And if the people don't fucking want more overbearing regulations?
Yeah! Because companies are reallly overburdened, struggling to make meager profits in the face of a gargantuan government that refuses to listen to their tiniest request. Will noone think of the shareholders? Instead it’s all “10 year olds can’t pack meat” or “maximum level of feces” or “mandatory water breaks”.
"WHY, OH WHY, CANT WE DOUBLE OUR PROFITS THIS YEAR??? THINK OF YOUR OVERLORDS!!!"
Then they can vote against the bill. But they should get the opportunity.
Additionally, laws that curb unbridled greed at the cost of consumers isn’t a burdensome regulation for the people, it’s actually relieving the burden. Just like you can’t make defective products that kill people. That’s not a burden on the people, it saves people’s lives and yes costs a company, but a burden on a company is not equivalent to a burden on the people.
Just FYI, that dude is trying to make a name as a troll on here. All over the place with BS
Ah thank you, will just block — appreciate the heads up!
Yeah third strike and now blocked. What a nutjob
Lmao funny how you jaclasses can't fathom that anyone can legitimately disagree and have to resort to brazen lies.
Has there not been ample opportunity for such votes? It's been 7 years since gdpr passed over in Europe, if we want to be generous and assume nobody was even aware of the possibility of such legislation prior. That's plenty of time to have written and passed a copycat law, and California did, so would the lack of such laws elsewhere not demonstrate a lack of support?
Wait so your argument is that because we lag good ideas elsewhere they must not be good ideas? So by definition a place like South Africa should never have abolished apartheid because obviously if their people wanted it then they would’ve done it within 3 years of the first abolishment of such a system?
If someone wants to put it on a ballot, let them put it on a ballot and decide. If the will of the people is that their privacy is worth more than a companies bottom line, that is the choice of the people.
No, that isn't my argument in the slightest. What's good has absolutely fuck all to do with what's popular or what the government passes. My point was that the choice of the people, agree with it or not, seems to be leaning towards not passing such laws in the US, as evidenced by the fact that, given ample time, they have chosen not to for the most part. Whether you support such laws or not, is the lack of them not also the choice of the people?
They're misguided because they don't actually understand what's really going on.
Regulations on BUSINESS is better for every single human being.
“You people”?
Barking at the moon, bro
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- MomoTimeToDie
Wow. Conservatives are dangerously unintelligent.
Who is in favor of more companies hoovering up data? Did you know you can just search someone's email address and you can get their name, home address, last few addresses, and people related to them?
You can email them to get rid of that data, but some ask you to submit a driver's license photo (giving them more data on you) to delete it.
Fuck that. Fuck that x 100. I don't want someone to egg my house, or threaten my mother, just because I disagreed with them on a forum. Regulate the fuck out of that.