1. GDPR, as any other bloated, convoluted, written in inhuman juridical
language law, mostly benefits two kinds of people: lawyers and
government-related officials. It incurs a lot of ado and expenses, gives
vast grounds for power abuse and so on and so forth.
It also benefits third kind of people: new companies that specialize
in GDPR busywork.
As a side effect, it somewhat helps ordinary people to control the usage
of their personal data. Since data lifespan on the Net is hardly
controllable in whole, the abuse potential of GDPR is limitless. Cheer
the politicians for this excellent masterpiece of legislation.
'Helps' is a big word. Any company sufficiently evil to abuse your
personal data will continue to do so, and ignore any requests to
the contrary.
As any law or regulation, it has undeniable and numerous detrimental
side effects, which I fully acknowledge. But it establishes an
important principle, completely new to the Internet (and thus often
very irritating to those that are forced to change their MO):
*An individual has the right* to demand that his personally
identifiable information be removed from some specific public
information source, *even if*, at some previous time, in his
ignorance or naivete, he himself made that information publicly
available.
The GDPR as a solution is neither perfect nor without warts, but
our agreement or disagreement with this principle - in my humble
observation - determines how harsh we judge its warts.
lf
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