I guess at the time (2018) the EU powers that be might have actually meant this, but now those have succumbed to the awe of AI, the (far-)right and US pressure
And don't let anyone tell you the GDPR was never meant to regulate AI, it most certainly was #loveGDPR
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![RFN: You’ve introduced several data privacy laws in Vermont and have said the lobbying effort to defeat your bills has been intense. Tell me about that.
MP: What I ended up sharing with lawmakers on the call was that there were some personal attacks. There was an ethics complaint threatened [saying that Priestley doesn’t live in her district, which is untrue]. I actually think that the purpose of threatening to file an ethics complaint that I don't live in my district was [meant] to get my address in public, basically in evidence, to be able to doxx me. …
We had [a lobbyist] show up in our cafeteria and she was talking to members of my committee.
RFN: So this is a data broker industry lobbyist?
MP: One of the big ones. The other [lobbying] entity that was getting involved was the automakers’ [lobbying association]. … [The data broker industry association] established a national PAC to fight data broker laws.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfyumzgi4zcdgf2dxic6unix/bafkreie3ydz2wxq3ngytz2ljfi5oakxztl3z4xj4eq4uty7yq5ohyj3rl4)
