GDPR lacks clear and unambiguous limiting principles and attempts to impose costs--a tax if you will-- on what you know. From a u.s private person perspective, that looks like a significant overreach. Yes, GDPR reigns in a data industry run amok. Great. But GDPR does not clearly stop there, and for the rest of us GDPR seems to hint ominously that if you know anything about anyone, that may be a problem. So overtly cut ties with Europe or forget what you know. Are we to become know-nothings? New-age luddites? Whatever happened to liberty, representation, and the freedom to learn about the world? The commentary largely focuses on online data, ips and such, but GDPR is not limited to such things. This has the flavor of regulation written by foreign bureaucrats in consultation with big business, having little concern for the significant risk of mystifying and annoying literally anyone else in the world. It's a negative development for interconnectivity and international comity.