The guy who’s been visioning about stringent data protections, strikes again.
Edward Snowden, a popular whistleblower who was responsible for leaking classified information of the American government’s mass surveillance program on global citizens in 2013. His contribution with The Guardian and other news reporters surprised everyone in the world and realised them of data thefts.
Though in exile, he’s been in constant contact with the world via Twitter and periodical TV shows (video conferencing securely). Just today, he has appeared in the opening ceremony of Web Summit 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Edward Snowden Calls GDPR a Paper Tiger. Accuses Of Just Making The Spying Legal.
Unlike penalising when there’s a data leak, he believes that all such companies has to be penalised every year until they change their methodology.