On 30 May 2019 European data protection supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli made a speech to an international information security conference, titled “Deception By Design“. Amongst others he said about the many data breaches:

But the suspicion is that this is collateral damage for a business model which relies on constant tracking of people – data maximisation, in other words.

and

People are beginning to appreciate the gap between the marketing slogans and the reality.
So, is the reality “deception by design”?

He ends with optimism.

Read the complete speech.