General Data Protection Regulation Poem by John Sensele

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.