Yea, nothing good to see here - it’s just exposing what was already a bad thing from a privacy standpoint.

Though with a little luck this will motivate EU to enforce stronger protections, and maybe (I’m not optimistic), this will help in the long term.

It’s a pretty intractable problem, since the US lacks strong protections as no individual state wants to try pushing stronger protections, since that will just motivate business to go elsewhere.

Though Texas is taking an insurance company to court for trying to do an end-run around data collection restrictions. Hopefully they’ll get hit with a verdict that hurts.