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That is malicious compliance with the law, and more or less indicative of a failure of enforcement against offenders.

But the law still caused that, of course regulation is going to be adversarial and they should anticipate that.

No, the laws that ensures that private individuals have the power to know what is stored about them, change incorrect data, and have it deleted unless legally necessary to hold it - all in a timely manner and financially penalize companies that do not.

> and have it deleted unless legally necessary to hold it

Tell that to X which disables your ability to delete your account if it gets suspended.

No, GDPR is the law that allowed me to successfully request the deletion of everything companies like Meta have ever harvested on me without my consent and for them to permanently delete it.

Fun fact, GitHub doesn't have cookie banners. It's almost like it's possible to run a huge site without being a parasite and harvesting every iota of data of your site's visitors!

That's not the GDPR.