I'm not missing your point, I just don't agree with it. :P If what you're suggesting were true we would have seen large numbers of EU unicorns based around gat

I'm not missing your point, I just don't agree with it. :P If what you're suggesting were true we would have seen large numbers of EU unicorns based around gathering private data before GDPR that have somehow disappeared ...and we didn't. GDPR wasn't brought in through calculus to shake down brave data innovators, striving to "make the world a better place". GDPR came in reaction to large foreign entities taking the piss, stalking us with creepy adverts and dark pattens, refusing to take no for an answer.