Eugh. Yet more hassle to deal with as someone trying to build apps and deliver functionality. People should stop running to mommy to get their data deleted and just not share it in the first place. The internet was better before this kind of regulation and right to be forgotten. This sort of bureaucracy is just a drain on the productive members of society.
A lot of companies don’t give you a lot of choices. Want a credit card? We need to verify your identity. Oops, we sold that data to 3rd parties. And they sold it to spammers. If you store my personal data and then have a data breach due to gross negligence, who suffers? I do. Can I sue? Probably not.
I don’t want people passing around my data at all. It’s mine. And passing it around is creepy. “Just never fill in my data in a web form” is a grossly insufficient answer - I’d need to opt out of the entire modern economy.
There’s an easy way for companies to comply with these requests: just don’t store people’s data in the first place. If you need to store my data, I want your site to be secure. And I want consent. And I want to be able to opt out.
> drain on the productive members of society
Most of these rules target ad companies, and I contest the “productive” part. They can all jump in a lake.
> People should stop running to mommy to get their data deleted and just not share it in the first place.
Agreed that people should not just hand over personal data, however humans make mistakes and may later that it was a decision that they only now realize was not in their best interest. People open accounts/share personal data when they have to for work/business and then no longer work for that company, or they think they have to, or they have been coerced/tricked via dark patterns.
I've been deleting accounts and requesting my personal data be purged from accounts I created 5 to 10+ years ago - before I was aware of good digital hygiene and that these accounts have information that can later become a liability (whether it's personal/financial data that's been hacked, or the company sells my data to 3rd parties/marketers, or the company is bought out by another company with different privacy polices).
