[closeparen]

>deciding to create a business around other people's personal information

>profit off people's personal data

Have you "decided to create a business around destroying the environment" and "profit off CO2 emissions" because your office is heated in the winter? GDPR is not specific to the adtech or data brokerage industries.

[cyphar]

Yes, climate change effects would probably be a more accurate analogy -- but many people are very much against carbon tax schemes so it felt best to avoid that comparison.