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GDPR. Don’t Leave It To Lawyers!
As a matter of fact, one should rather say don’t leave it only to the lawyers; just that we were told that tag-lines should be the shortest possible. First, let’s quickly recap what brought us to this 4-letter word. Next, let’s understand how the system has been rigged to benefit mostly to the lawyers; of course, officially for the Common Good. Then, let’s see how to fix the situation for bringing back the Spirit behind highly welcome changes at the expense of the Letter.
Background://
Back in the late nineties, existing legal frameworks pertaining to data protection proved to be total jokes.
Take the European Data protection Directive (1995) or the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, translated in 2000 into the EU Safe Harbor Decision; it was indeed hiding a massive imbalance of power leveraged especially by American West Coast companies — to simplify -, companies accessing quasi unlimited funding from non risk-averse Venture Capital firms without having to break-even neither in the short nor in medium run. Likewise, in 2016, in the context of “a renewed and sound framework for transatlantic data flows”, the EU-US Privacy Shield was yet another mockery. Overall, it led to the incredible global growth and unquestioned leadership of, among others, the Big Four, also called GAFA providing us with vast amount of “free…
