Get Your Premium Membership

General Data Protection Regulation

General data protection regulation hits the internet running Disrupting models of personal data manipulation, dissemination and protection In scenarios where click and trick firms gunning Through stealth and miscalculation Harvest personal data Share it, carve it, analyze it and synthesize it Commoditizing data on a silver platter Turning owners of data into a misfit Whose role becomes peripheral to the resources Inherent in the data hitherto unprotected In environments where unknown algorithms catch data from personal sources Converting it into commodities whose preselected Models yield colossal sums in profit and loss accounts That swell coffers Bursting to the brim with huge zillion counts Which personal information confers On business moguls now battling for their lives Confronting upfront a new reality In which GDPR offers Checks and balances to terminate the surreality Where multinational corporations Can no longer harvest personal information In clandestine operations Through intrigue and misinformation Cornering data owners whom they render irrelevant Milking them to the bone Burying their rights to consent on data use as a subservient servant Whom they harry in a dismissive tone Until GDPR turns the tables Demanding clarity in genuine consent Disassociated from stables When the subterfuge of terms and conditions suffers a descent Into irrelevance Which opacity For too long hid in the lance and dance With scorn in usury city Adding salt to injury Blackmailing data owners Through perjury Hidden and driven in motives of illicit profit spawners and partners.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

A comment has not been posted for this poem. Encourage a poet by being the first to comment.


Book: Shattered Sighs