I see this a bit differently, your information has become a commodity captured and gathered into a profile for each and everyone of us. This what Facebook and many others have been doing and if you think that is ok well then there is not much I can say to you.
In essence the GDPR seeks to limit the amount of use of your data by companies to whom it has been provided without your consent, and on the other side if you choose to have it deleted they must do so, totally.
As to the data transport issue Facebook just moved over 1.5 billion records from EU to the United States in order to try and thwart this regulation. Unless you have been living under a rock this is a huge issue around the world as that data is intended not for convenience.
I will leave the discussion for further insights, GDPR is not the only standard that seeks to help maintain YOUR privacy and data, HIPPA, GxP and others do the same. I belong to a group called VRM out of Harvard and they are all about data privacy, and not from some leftist perspective. Just do a search on VRM and have a look for yourselves and then think about You and how much you feel comfortable with someone else having
Phone calls
Chats
E-mails
This will not limit freedom of speech at all, it will protect it. Bringing it home to FreeRepublic if a user wanted their record deleted then that would be fine, it was if they never existed from the data standpoint and any financial or personal info would be deleted
“I see this a bit differently, your information has become a commodity captured and gathered into a profile for each and everyone of us. This what Facebook and many others have been doing and if you think that is ok well then there is not much I can say to you.”
You made a rather idiotic conclusion.
The choice isn’t between absolute abuse of personal information or an absolute abuse of Internet companies.
The answer to data abuse isn’t government abuse as the GDPR is.
That is why we have government abuse in this country: People asked for extreme measures out of juvenile anger about various subjects.
GDPR is extreme government abuse.
A simple law that takes care of data abuse is one that prohibits the selling or trading of data between companies or across borders.
In fact, the GDPR doesn’t even prevent data abuse. It only says the company must tell you about it first. The GDPR doesn’t even prohibit a company in your country from sending that information to another country. It pisses me off that a credit card company has given India call center my personal and financial information. I have zero protection should India screw with it.
The GDPR isn’t about protecting your privacy because it doesn’t do that. It is about government control of the Internet.