Have you read recital 1? https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-1/ ? The starting point of the law is that data protoection is a fundamental human right,. The data subject owns their PII, not some company collecting it.
It's all up whether you are willing to accept that as a fundamental right or not.
I mean there is a billion of Chinese that live with the fact that free speech is not a fundamental human right. Most Westerners have a problem with that.
Now many US based IT professionals seems to have problems with accepting that nobody else can own the data about a human.
> It's typical of legislation in that it obviously wasn't written by people who knew what it looked like to perform that in a real life business.
That's what a cotton farmer could have said when they made slavery illegal. Obviously respecting other's human rights makes some business models illegal.
Have you read recital 1? https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-1/ ? The starting point of the law is that data protoection is a fundamental human right,. The data subject owns their PII, not some company collecting it.
It's all up whether you are willing to accept that as a fundamental right or not.
I mean there is a billion of Chinese that live with the fact that free speech is not a fundamental human right. Most Westerners have a problem with that.
Now many US based IT professionals seems to have problems with accepting that nobody else can own the data about a human.
> It's typical of legislation in that it obviously wasn't written by people who knew what it looked like to perform that in a real life business.
That's what a cotton farmer could have said when they made slavery illegal. Obviously respecting other's human rights makes some business models illegal.