Overbearing legislation applied by unelected representatives is being abused. If only there were technical solutions provided with an assumption of goodwill instead of 88 pages of mandates without such an assumption.
The internet at it's base abstraction is a borderless medium without regard to locality. Imposing legislation by user region is a dangerous precedent as each region can now impose fee-seeking legislation on internet companies.
Sounds like Team America again.
The government's of the world are struggling with internet jurisdiction issues, currently the US is taking the stance that any act against their companies is a US matter, whereas the EU is looking at abuse of its citizens is an EU matter. Weaker states have no recourse at all. I find it hard to judge that the US stance is ethically better than the EU's
We don't elect governments over here, just Parliament and President.
Being able tho propose a law is not ther same as enacting a law, and is not the same as applying a law which is what the parent comment said.
As demonstrated by the troll in this very situation, right now (assuming the filer is actually a troll).
The bad actors are still going to be bad and lie about it, the honest actors just got burdened with some of the worst legislation in recent history without it even coming from our elected officials.
It's dangerous and I don't care for having to backtrack through years worth of projects in use and figure out how they can each be GDPR compliant. It's a tax on creators time and is imo one of the worst possible things legislators can do to an emerging space (as all software is).
Who do you think can take advantage here?
The commission proposes legislation, the council & parliament pass it
The GDPR was formally proposed by the European Commission, but it then went to the European Parliament (where it was amended). If the European Parliament had voted against it then it would have never become law.