It was fun while it lasted - EU to destroy Internet

[DireWolf]

Another piece of GDPR garbage.

We're all fucked with this EU BS. Anyone and everyone is a target for litigation through non-compliance of EU regs.

I'm getting queries from some (less sophisticated) clients because IBM is sending out letters demanding they acknowledge they do business with IBM, which is bound by GDPR due to business conducted within the EU. It's guilt by association. I'm talking mom and pop machine shops that only make, market, and sell domestically. Just because they use Big Blue iron, they're subject to this crap.

I don't profess to understand it all, but the EU can go fuck themselves with an ebola infected cactus.

Just figured I'd add my .02 here - Completely agree as to the fucked-up way that law was written and all the BS unintended consequences cropping up...

That said, there was/is valid underlying reasoning (the intent was solid, but end result got fucked up), and this is ultimately the result of shitbags in expensive suits that won't act properly unless beaten into submission, which is the intent of those 4% Gross Revenue fines for non-compliance...

Expect way more of this coming down at the fed/state level because as previously stated, there is a real need (CA just passed a similar privacy law, and while as usual they let special interests fuck it up, they actually came close to doing something right for a change...), but I'm still not holding my breath for the personal accountabity (civil & criminal) which is really required to solve the underlying problem(s) that law was meant to address..