Re: A State Level Protection Racket?
"Personally, I'd like to see these businesses abandoning these countries,"
GDPR applies to everyone in the EU, individuals, businesses, residents and visitors. It's not as if the likes of Google didn't have years to learn about and prepare for this. They chose to use their own interpretation of the law and wait for the courts to clarify it for them. They bet wrong and lost. Tough.
If Google have a fundamental problem with applying GDPR, then of course they have the right to pull all their services out of the EU and leave a market of 500 million people to their competitors.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
