By who? The people I know who have had to deal with GDPR still regard it as a disastrous piece of legislation, a textbook example of how not to write civilized

By who? The people I know who have had to deal with GDPR still regard it as a disastrous piece of legislation, a textbook example of how not to write civilized law. It's achieved nothing obvious or concrete, and meanwhile many Americans now perceive the EU as using privacy legislation to extort massive fines from them. Fines that are levied regardless of how much effort they put into compliance.