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I have read it, as have our lawyers, which is why we have no choice but to block all EU traffic from our services. All fans of the law think it will only be u

I have read it, as have our lawyers, which is why we have no choice but to block all EU traffic from our services. All fans of the law think it will only be used to go after "bad" guys. But that just isn't how laws like this are used in practice. They are designed to be easy to violate for a reason - that reason being to generate massive revenue from fines. You should take a look at this well reasoned blog post about why someone stopped selling their products in the EU - https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selling-stuff-europe/ https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selli... There are just far more issues here than you're acknowledging.

codingdave 9y ago
All legal questions can be answered with "It Depends." The lack of clarity form the courts is to be expected, but isn't that different than any other legal grey area. And yes, there are concerns. And yes, if a company wants to skip out of the EU and wait for the dust to settle, that is a valid business choice. But people are arguing with you because you are all over this thread acting like it is the only business choice. Or that we all need to spend millions to make that choice. In truth, it is a risk management decision, not a legal one, because the legal answers are unknowns. You clearly are drawing this into the quadrant of both high likelihood and high consequences... which is fine, for you. But different organizations may have different answers, putting GDPR compliance into a different risk quadrant, and those are their own decisions to make.