Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

I don't see any such things. What I got is many emails when GDPR started and companies asked me to click a link so that they can keep my data and emails saying that they changed privacy. I didn't click any of those links.

BTW I use ad blocker and that hides many nonsense. Even before GDPR there were too many of these dickbars[1] everywhere and I'm annoyed at those. Every site has those subscribe to email popup and other dickbars floating around.

So GDPR didn't make things worse like you say. Although the internet has become worse with tracking everywhere and stupid designs making us suffer.

[1]https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars

Again I'll take none, but if this ridiculous fervor that's been built requires something, how about not-tech-specific rules around data sharing transparency? Just require details on what's shared and with whom for those seeking it (ideally companies publish it to prevent requiring individual request/response scaling issues, but their choice). You're gonna find most people don't care anyways, so they shouldn't be burdened with more hardline privacy requirements. Just increase the visibility for now.

And please please learn from EU mistakes and establish enforcement mechanisms. Don't just make exorbitant ceilings and move on. Have a framework to punish violators, and again start with small legislation until it can be shown enforcement occurs and is working.

Having said all that, can we just start with pro-privacy PSAs, education, targeted advertisement awareness, punitive measures for breaches, and relaxation of legislation preventing me from scraping/manipulating/proxying these sites however I want? If we all have to hire lawyers and/or compliance assistance, then the first step is too large. We can make our way towards delete-all-my-data-on-request laws later. Not sure what made this an emergency (actually I do know based on media and political driven fervor, but that will be best studied through the lens of history). But all these tech people, OP and commenters here especially, don't speak for many people who accept the current state or reasonably understand heavy-handed government regulations on the internet bring more bad than good.

And for goodness sake, don't use the domain of your should-be-neutral software to make a political post. You aren't gonna feel any pain now because you are in the same line with other popular pitchfork wielders, but your political leanings have bit you before, why would you associate your company with them?

No, these are very real, very concrete negative effects of every company and their grandma spying on your internet usage.

I don't see anything about it that makes it "especially targeted against data leaks". It offers protections for free speech without being specific about what that means or how it is balanced.

Of course it's not the same as the French Law, but it's still a vector for threatening legal action against someone who wants to maintain and publish facts about an individual.

There was substantial hullabaloo about this here yesterday.

I mean, look, I'm a US national, so my knowledge is limited. But I've spent time in Europe and talked to many people (again, including some leading thinkers and European activists) and I'm telling you, without a shred of a doubt, that this concern exists here.

By assuming they will, and taking steps to not provide your data to all and sundry. At the end of the day, companies can sell your data because they have it.