Almost missed this thanks to the incorrectly flagged message up thread. > I don't think that people like you and people like me will ever agree in these discus

Almost missed this thanks to the incorrectly flagged message up thread. > I don't think that people like you and people like me will ever agree in these discussions because you look at statistics and I look at possibilities. You may be right in our chances of agreement! I see a judiciary separate from state which is more than happy to put politicians back in their box when they introduce bad or overreaching law. Governments of all colours complain about the judiciary and Lords here in the UK - which I see as proof that the separation basically still works. I see data protection bodies that are separate from government and politics. I see occasional stories of record fines or breaches from mainly Western Europe and talk to friends and conclude small business and solo developers are not being fined or trolled into oblivion in nearby countries either. Yet EU DPA is most of what GDPR is with smaller maximum fines. Why isn't the disaster scenario you foresee already happening with current DPA and other laws? Why are so few fined for breaches and only the most extreme cases getting fines? I'm less aware of justice systems further east and yes it's obvious that former Soviet bloc are going to be rightly more sensitive to and concerned about corruption. I'm also not aware how successfully that's been left behind from adopting EU laws and years of membership. That said, reading the pieces that turn up on HN it seems that the US is the one with problems of corruption in the justice system currently. No doubt that's also unrepresentative thanks to what's being shared about a vast nation. So, the legal trolls - it's going to be registrars and data protection bodies bringing cases or seeking sanctions. Just like happens with current DPA. This does not appear to be akin, or anywhere near, the US DMCA where large media companies massively abuse takedowns via automated software and triggering numerous trivial errors. I don't see the scope to exhaust someone out of business - yet it's clearly easy with DMCA. There's nothing a Sony can abuse to pick on a little guy with GDPR - they can report me to the registrar. You're right that it remains to be seen, but I sincerely doubt our data protection bodies are suddenly going to break out thumb screws and bring orders of magnitude more cases when they've kept fines for the final, extreme, and rare sanction til now. I honestly expect that just as I feel more should have attracted fines and sanctions under DPA I'll find that GDPR is also being too lightly applied. We'll see. I've been wrong on the internet before. :)