Proving cynics and doomsayers wrong, the GDPR has provided an important foundation for privacy rights around the world and its implementation and enforcement must continue.
The wisdom of the melancholy attitude as opposed to the bitter, angry one, lies in the understanding that the sorrow isn't just about you, that you have not been singled out, that you're suffering belongs to humanity in general.
Right now, when people are scared, it's easy to be cynical and say, let me just look out for myself, or my family or people who look or think or pray like me.
This has been cynically respun by some as a savvy media strategy which, in turn, has seemed to provoke even more vulture-like behaviour, their every interview picked clean for tasty hints about their relationship.