Too many vested interests have undermined the effectiveness of the EU’s key data protection law
is the cornerstone legislation for data protection and data privacy in the EU, but remains plagued with some significant problems. And the majority aren’t what everyone thinks they are.
It suits politicians, security services and big tech to have the general public fretting over misinterpretations of GDPR at the microscale – supposed prohibitions over signing books of condolences, or supposed bans preventing hairdressers from sharing their clients’ hair colour blends. In most of these cases the GDPR actually had no relevance. The real concern should be the macro problems perpetuated by the state and corporate powers that are the actual targets of GDPR.
You might wish to argue that if a criminal conviction remained in place, then that’s a good thing. But democratic justice systems are based on the fact that surveillance and data gathering must be proportionate. The highest EU court made clear a decade ago that Ireland’s data collection regime was not. The state gambled that it could get away with pretending it didn’t need to address this yawning human rights gap.
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