[DanBC]

> But I hope GDPR boosters who went around minimizing the threat to good-faith actors admit that they were wrong.

What? No. Your first example talks about "open source datasets" -- no such thing exists for my personal data. If you've gathered my data you need to tell me why you gathered it. Dumping it into a dataset for other people to use is clearly not ok.

Your misdescribe your second example. Notice the company weren't fined just because they had the phone number. They were fined because they had the phone number, they were asked to delete it, and they declined to delete it. The company were not claiming they couldn't erase the phone number because it would be too hard. They were trying to say that they wouldn't erase it because they needed it for debt collection. The regulator disagreed.

Neither of these are good faith actors and these are exactly the kinds of data misuse I wanted GDPR to handle.