>deciding to create a business around other people's personal information
>profit off people's personal data
Have you "decided to create a business around destroying the environment" and "profit off CO2 emissions" because your office is heated in the winter? GDPR is not specific to the adtech or data brokerage industries.
Yes, climate change effects would probably be a more accurate analogy -- but many people are very much against carbon tax schemes so it felt best to avoid that comparison.
>profit off people's personal data
Have you "decided to create a business around destroying the environment" and "profit off CO2 emissions" because your office is heated in the winter? GDPR is not specific to the adtech or data brokerage industries.