So Europe is basically being denied access to what is possibly paradigm-shifting technology because a few bureaucrats decided to.
A quick reminder of what GDPR proponents were saying in 2018:
> Thank you for teaching me about rules-based and principles-based regulation. This is one of the big reasons I enjoy living in Europe tbh, a bit of discretion and old 'common sense' is actually quite an awesome thing.
> However, after the initial bring-up pains any business which continues to have a problem with the GPDR most likely has a business model directly in conflict with the spirit of the law.
> Customers are going to have a choice between GDPR-compliant companies and USA-only ones and (if they care) they are going to assume the worst about why the GDPR can make a company retreat from the EU market.
> The GDPR gets so much hate because it hits so many businesses where it hurts: data. [...] Of course that's annoying from a business perspective, but from an individuals privacy perspective, it's fantastic.
> One surprising side effect of this might be that the hordes of machine learners and data scientists who used to work for adtech might go to healthcare/bioinformatics where we might get new breakthroughs.
A quick reminder of what GDPR proponents were saying in 2018:
> Thank you for teaching me about rules-based and principles-based regulation. This is one of the big reasons I enjoy living in Europe tbh, a bit of discretion and old 'common sense' is actually quite an awesome thing.
> However, after the initial bring-up pains any business which continues to have a problem with the GPDR most likely has a business model directly in conflict with the spirit of the law.
> Customers are going to have a choice between GDPR-compliant companies and USA-only ones and (if they care) they are going to assume the worst about why the GDPR can make a company retreat from the EU market.
> The GDPR gets so much hate because it hits so many businesses where it hurts: data. [...] Of course that's annoying from a business perspective, but from an individuals privacy perspective, it's fantastic.
> One surprising side effect of this might be that the hordes of machine learners and data scientists who used to work for adtech might go to healthcare/bioinformatics where we might get new breakthroughs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17060085
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099484
Here's my prediction: VPN sales through the roof in Europe.