It’s a shame they don’t care about any of the reasons this is a tragically bad and ineffective set of laws that score as many own goals as they do.

They are aware that these laws have been pushed along by the very multinational corporations they sought to legislate… Hmm I wonder why that might be?

They know that the online gambling advertising industry pushed this as a smokescreen to take the heat off their gravy train.

They know that the laws don’t work and create a whole host of other problems.

But think off all the control and surveillance opportunities it opens for the intelligence state.

I’ve recently been told that to do my job I need to provide ID and biometrics to a multinational, I started asking the real questions and it turns out that as soon as they “de-identify” the data they gather they are welcome to use it however they see fit.

• How do they de-identify? “We follow industry best practice.”
• What does that mean? “We can’t tell you for privacy reasons.”
• Do they have third party audits of the data de-identification processes? “Yes, but we can’t tell you who by or when it last occurred for privacy reasons.”
• Have they had any data breaches? “We have not reported any data breaches.”

This is an industry that is being handed the keys to the city in terms of our most sensitive data and they operate under a loose set of rules and guidelines and just do whatever they want. We are a few bad data breaches away from a national catastrophe and our government doesn’t care as long as they get to monitor which porn sites people like the most. It’s disgusting.