The US needs laws that protect our personal data online, now more than ever before it’s too late to easily change it
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It wasn’t talked a lot about in the US(the tinfoil hat wearer in me says it’s because people in the US would’ve wanted it passed here too and companies can’t have that happen lol), but
in 2016, the European Union passed a data protection law called General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) that addresses the rights of individuals over their personal data.
The law not only gives users control over their personal data that is collected and shared by websites and companies but it also increased the liabilities and responsibilities for companies (companies can spread all the propaganda they want against this 100% is wayyyy better for individual rights. They’re just mad cause they can’t do as they please with user data😂).
A lot of companies threw a fit over this law citing high cost of compliance and difficulty to implement(even though companies had a 2 year notice of these changes, with adequate time to prepare) and some companies even pulled out of the EU web market.
I think most of us can agree that users should 100% have the right to control, know, opt out of, and provide an informed consent to data collection and use. Especially because this data creates revenue for websites and companies. User data is precious. User data is the new gold.
Users have been convinced that they need companies but in reality, it is the companies that needs users. Not the other way around.
Your user data is used to track engagement, plan marketing strategies, and even create those terrifying targeted ads that seem to know what you were thinking about last Tuesday or seemed to be listening to the conversation you were having with your friend yesterday, amongst other things.
Companies are not going to pay you for your precious data but you should be able to have a say in it.
I just wanted to create this post to inform other american millennials because we are coming to a crucial point in the history of the Internet. The internet is still fairly young and we can still try to change the experience for the benefit of future generations(if global warming doesn’t turn us all into a hot bowl of bio-hazardous soup in the next 100 years lol)
We can and should band together to write and vote for a similar law(s) as the GDPR that protect and regulate the use of user data on the internet.
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