I wholeheartedly agree with this. I think people don't quite understand the extent of GDPR. Hurting start ups and hobby projects that might make some money on t

I wholeheartedly agree with this. I think people don't quite understand the extent of GDPR. Hurting start ups and hobby projects that might make some money on the side means that you'll have fewer successful businesses down the line. It also means that you'll have fewer qualified workers. The problem in the EU is that GDPR isn't the first such signal the EU has sent either. The cookie law was a signal that indicated that the EU regulates things without understanding what they're doing. The data retention act from over a decade ago was similar. I'm sure there were others even before that, but probably on a national level.