Big-Tech vs Big-Tobacco vs Banksters
For 2 decades 2 companies with no ethics have been criminally invading privacy, merely apologizing after getting caught, and paying paltry fines (just the cost-of-doing business).... Now superstar lawyer Max Schrems is firing billion dollar sueballs on day one of GDPR... Sounds great! - But....
Schrems' fight is reminiscent of the fight against Big Tobacco in the 90's ('The Insider' 1999 movie)... Or Banksters post 2008. Look at the Volcker rule now, its getting watered down. So this is going to be an uphill battle for sure. Big-Tech lobby for the laws they want and own politicians. GDPR is a mere experiment, no one knows how the law will shake out...
The problem here is, Big Tech has a much greater end-game here. They can delay fines for years and keep appealing. We know that, so that wont change! Facebook / Google rely on the ignorance / laziness of people and lack of real choice in the market... Will that ever change... Who here even knows where this phrase comes from: 'We are the native people's now'....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
