| > You don't have to give consent to use a service and if you don't give consent whatsapp can't legally share any data it has on you with facebook 1) WhatsApp IS Facebook. 2) there is nothing stopping WhatsApp from sharing your data, if they got it from someone else that interacts with you and that has given consent. (Which would be basically any non-EU citizen) > Not all data is covered by GDPR so of course data is still collected. How hard is it to understand that stopping collection of data at all is the only effective policy? You are arguing on the technicalities of GDPR like a first-year law school student. My point is that all these provisions did not and will not stop big tech from collecting data. You think you are being so smart by saying "oh, I can refuse consent", but you completely ignore that (a) you are a tiny minority of billions of people and (b) you are not stopping Facebook from tracking your location and you gave permission for them to turn on the microphone of your device whenever you open the app. > Those are new regulations Yeah, because the GDPR does not solve anything. Are you paying attention or are you just trying to confirm your worldview? > how is that not a restriction on free association? You can still associate with anyone. People can still work on a common project, the only difference is that any interactions would be interfaced by these separate companies. I want to make an analogy between monolithic vs message-passing kernels, but I worry you are going to go full-aspie and get stuck in some technicality. So let's just drop this. |