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by softwaredoug·7y ago·view on hn ↗
I remember thinking GDPR was yet another intrusive EU bureaucratic exercise. Now I wish it was the norm in the US.

I’m starting to think at a minimum it should be the floor of how data professionals ethically use user data.

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It really is one of those game changers that makes you realize the way we've always done things isn't necessarily the right way.

We're so used to being abused by marketers that it's hard to see any other way to use the Internet.

We should force every US politician to try and delete an Adobe ID in exchange for keeping their jobs and see how long before new laws come out.
I think it's early days to judge the effects of the GDPR. If websites are anything to go by, the primary effect on cars will be (if not already) pop ups on the touchscreen to agree to the new T&Cs.
As long as those T&Cs have a "no" button which still lets me drive the car (which most interpretations of the GDPR not made by surveillance companies themselves seem to require) I'm happy.
Call your Congressional representatives!