I think that GDPR actually made the average user better informed. Common knowledge is costly and it’s debatable whether the GDPR in particular balances the costs well, but it did provide more information.
As far as innovation goes GDPR did force companies to come up with a bunch of different innovations about protecting privacy that they otherwise wouldn’t have created. There are likely also innovations in ad-tech that are prevented through GDPR.
It was a relatively blunt instrument to get companies to innovate in privacy which they otherwise wouldn’t have. It had a cost of making other innovations harder.
The law could have been written better, but I don’t think there is a principle problem with the goal.
I think that GDPR actually made the average user better informed. Common knowledge is costly and it’s debatable whether the GDPR in particular balances the costs well, but it did provide more information.
As far as innovation goes GDPR did force companies to come up with a bunch of different innovations about protecting privacy that they otherwise wouldn’t have created. There are likely also innovations in ad-tech that are prevented through GDPR.
It was a relatively blunt instrument to get companies to innovate in privacy which they otherwise wouldn’t have. It had a cost of making other innovations harder.
The law could have been written better, but I don’t think there is a principle problem with the goal.