There are businesses who do it as their core business model. You see, there are businesses who don't violate privacy of people by accident. While that's a real good thing, even THAT is not, in my opinion, what the GDPR is about. There are big businesses who totally COULD do better but never bothered, and now the GDPR forces them to get their act together. But it isn't the main benefit or goal of the GDPR in my eyes.

The GDPR has forced many small businesses to re-think how they deal with private data, and that isn't a bad thing at all. That byproduct isn't all bad - we all make mistakes, and being more aware of privacy is good, even for small businesses. If anything, their additional hardship (and we at Nextcloud have this issue too) is at best a by product of the goal. The goal of the GDPR, and of my personal privacy concerns, isn't at all related to such a business. But if you run a mailing list on your local pottery sales website, with no intention other than to inform your prospective customers and followers of what you're up to, it can be a burden to have people send you GDPR takedown and 'delete me' requests instead of just having them, you know - unsubscribe via the link under your newsletter! Yes, the GDPR is good, giving people important rights. If you or your small business develops an app or runs a website to sell a product and you simply and honestly try to do a decent job while being a decent person, the GDPR is a big burden. You see, while the letter of the law is important, I think that intentions also are extremely important. What, a privacy advocate NOT deeply upset at bad privacy practices?

This one - I read it for a while but honestly, while I think it is good this is researched and attention is paid for it, I neither find the results very surprising NOR that horrible.

I appreciate such help, obviously, and often such articles are interesting. The sender suggested that I could use it in marketing for Nextcloud. Somebody pointed me to a research article about how many app developers fail to comply with the GDPR and data requests in general.

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