One counter example would be Booking.com. It's a Dutch company through and through[0] and pays the vast majority of its taxes in the Netherlands. Yet at least o

One counter example would be Booking.com. It's a Dutch company through and through[0] and pays the vast majority of its taxes in the Netherlands. Yet at least one of the European competition (!) authorities has already tried to use GDPR as a means to try and prove wrongdoing before GDPR is even in effect. This is to say: you don't have to be an American company to end up in the crosshairs of overzealous and downright populist regulators. Source: used to work there, had to help respond to a rather ludicrous 40-page list of questions. [0] Headquarters in Amsterdam, culturally strongly influenced by the Dutch, the biggest concentration of staff and virtually all product development in Amsterdam, albeit owned by an American company.