> As a person whose mother has worked at restaurants for over 40 years, and whose best friends owned a restaurant for close to 20, I can tell you that those "serious issues" and "all restaurants" are FUD.
"Among restaurant inspections with a total score of >80, at lease one critical violation was cited in 44% of those inspections"
Now imagine which percent of restaurants would fail if we also included failures to comply in other subjects?
> It will be the same: they will get it wrong the first time, get issued a warning, fix it, and carry on.
No, they will most likely never be inspected because there are far too many businesses to control and thus will never implement or fix their practices.
> And yeah, small business (or any business for that matter) really has no business collecting my private data, and selling it to third-parties.
They have just as many rights to do it as large companies
> Now imagine which percent of restaurants would fail if we also included failures to comply in other subjects?
And your point to all this is?
> No, they will most likely never be inspected because there are far too many businesses to control and thus will never implement or fix their practices.
Funny how it's not far too many for the heath inspectors, and tax agencies, and ...
> They have just as many rights to do it as large companies
Exactly: zero. Edit: that is, zero right to collect any personal data beyond what they need for the service. And definitely no right to siphon and sell it to others with reckless abandon.
Small businesses are already not able to comply to core business regulations so obviously they won't have the time and resources to comply with the GDPR compared to large companies that have specialised in-house talent and financial means to do so.
> Funny how it's not far too many for the heath inspectors, and tax agencies, and ...
It absolutely is.
Taxes are basically based on people voluntarily complying because there are absolutely not enough inspectors to detect most frauds.
> Exactly: zero. Edit: that is, zero right to collect any personal data beyond what they need for the service. And definitely no right to siphon and sell it to others with reckless abandon.
That is your opinion and it doesn't match what the law allows for.
"Among restaurant inspections with a total score of >80, at lease one critical violation was cited in 44% of those inspections"
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323064/
Now imagine which percent of restaurants would fail if we also included failures to comply in other subjects?
> It will be the same: they will get it wrong the first time, get issued a warning, fix it, and carry on.
No, they will most likely never be inspected because there are far too many businesses to control and thus will never implement or fix their practices.
> And yeah, small business (or any business for that matter) really has no business collecting my private data, and selling it to third-parties.
They have just as many rights to do it as large companies