>In Europe, one of those rights is control over your own personal information.
If that were true, you would not be able to post this comment (the most highly sensitive category of personal data, political views) in a public forum.
If you do not see the differences between collecting PII, and communicating your opinion in public, I'm not sure that a good faith discussion is possible.
But if it's all the same, would you mind sharing your credit card numbers, SSN, and date of birth? I won't leak it, pinky swear.
If that were true, you would not be able to post this comment (the most highly sensitive category of personal data, political views) in a public forum.