This site seems like a great example of how the EU forces productive folks to jump through all kinds of regulatory hoops. Hopefully it’ll help them navigate the complex legislation.
Most countries in the world though has governments which ensure basic rights, and if you want to do business in those countries you follow those laws, no matter how it may reduce your profitability
The fact that 'productive folks' have been engaged in a chicken race with the regulators since GDPR came along in 2016 is entirely on them.
The second shoe dropped with Schrems II in 2020, and the race to find plausible technicalities to keep doing the same thing continued. Still no real attempt at fixing the problems.
If they had followed the spirit of the law rather than trying to get away with dubious technicalities, there would be no mad scramble to fix things now when it turned out those technicalities were in fact hopeful thinking at best.
https://www-mucbook-de.translate.goog/wenn-datenschutz-falsc...
> 2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:
> (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;
There is an exemption for private individuals conducting their personal affairs. But it still applies to private individuals acting in a public space. Article 4 also reinforces that a Controller may be a natural person.
I cant think of anything other than personal or household activities. Unless youre talking about one-person companies. But then, I consider them companies, even if they are only one person.
As noted elsewhere, most of the fines against private individuals have been issued by Spain. And my mediocre Spanish literacy leads me to believe several of those fines are for posting videos on social media.
Cant point your camera at public spaces.
But I get where you are coming from. Just isnt all that relevant to my live, I guess. Most things here go farther than the GDPR in those cases.