General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) ⚖

I have filed several GDPR art.77 complaints. Every,single,complaint → mothballed.

So I must ask: is it just high-profile or high visibility cases submitted by reputable orgs like NoYB that get enforced? Has anyone here personally filed an art.77 complaint as a no-name individual on behalf of yourself and gotten results from the DPA?

For me, the GDPR is essentially non-existent. I believe the EU masses believe they can live fast-and-loose with their digital footprints because they are under an illusion that the GDPR will protect them. I used think the US must be annoyed with the GDPR because it would seem to put tech giants under control. But in fact it apparently creates a false sense of security in Europe that exposes off-guard Europeans to surveillance capitalism to an unexpected extent.

I encourage EU folks to exercise their imaginary GDPR rights (e.g. make access requests and erasure requests). And when a data controller ignores the request submit an art.77 complaint to experience the dysfunction 1st-hand. Some data controllers will simply comply. This is because they are also unaware of the lack of enforcement.