"So nice to see progress in privacy but please someone explains how GDPR will help EU startups!" Why does everything have to help startups? "GDPR is inevitabl

"So nice to see progress in privacy but please someone explains how GDPR will help EU startups!" Why does everything have to help startups? "GDPR is inevitably going to hinder any new company forced to abide by it." I disagree. You simply shouldn't be collecting that data in most instances anyway. And if you truly do need it, you should have been asking permission before. Somehow we got it into our heads that it was perfectly acceptable to just take things without asking. I'm fairly certain I learned not to do this in Kindergarten. "Entrepreneurs / investors also want their time & money to be used to build value first rather than solve yet another accidental complexity that is irrelevant until your revenue model is proven." The GDPR has no impact on this, unless the only way you can create "value" is by disrespecting your users. You can still build value the old fashioned way, by providing something of use to your users.