[M2Ys4U]

>> European Parliament decided

>You mean EU politicians decided.

Well parliaments tend to have politicians as members, yes. That's generally how representative democracy works.

>I want the right to use my data as I see fit, including exchange it for "free" services and products.

You can use your own personal data however you want to, the GDPR has absolutely no limits on that. And if you want to give your express consent for others to use your personal data in any way they see fit, you can also do that. Consent is a legal basis for processing personal data, after all.

They just can't use my personal data - or the personal data of anyone else who has withheld consent - like that.

[nickpp]

> You can use your own personal data however you want to

Oh but I can't, when the companies decide not to offer those services to the EU due to the onerous requirements of GDPR. Because the GDPR was not some harmless default being changed but a horribly written regulation that affected the way software must be written, from data retention and storage to logs and analytics.

All for a bunch of politicians pretending to represent us while I am willing to bet that the vast majority of Internet EU users is busy hunting for the "Allow All" button on every damn cookie popup on every website today. There was no need in the market for this.

[dmitriid]

> Oh but I can't

Yes, you can

> when the companies decide not to offer those services

They never offered "you can freely sell your personal data to us". What they offered was "we siphon your personal data, for free, whether you want it or not, and sell it to the highest bidder".

> I am willing to bet that the vast majority of Internet EU users is busy hunting for the "Allow All" button

Ah yes. It's the politicians who are at fault, and not the companies who put up these banners in clear violation of the law.