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> It takes time, and real money to be compliant, and getting slow on this quite plausibly can make one a repeat offender.

When I read things like this I realize how many companies are not treating user data as they should. Protecting user data should already be built into the company software and process.

Given FB revelations and additional scrutiny to Google, I see some form of this law coming to the US.

>>matwoo+(OP)
Yes. We've had PECR for years. If companies are surprised by GDPR they're probably already violating PECR.

But, dispite this widespread non-compliance and fierce fines available to the regulators the sky hasn't fallen. Why do people think GDPR is sudden;y going to make things so much worse?

>>matwoo+(OP)
As a user I suppose they should do whatever satisfies me, and I'm not always need a bunch of populists from EU parliament, who can't write a clear text, run to save me, making field even more favorable for big corpos at the expense of SMEs, and small non-profits in the course of action.

>Given FB revelations and additional scrutiny to Google, I see some form of this law coming to the US.

That would be good news for the EU, of course. Even before GDPR, entrepreneurs were routinely advised to incorporate in US instead, and the legislation likely added incentives for that.

>>DanBC+l
The OP reacts to news of businesses stopping serving EU, and those businesses are from outside of the Union. So PECR is not so relevant.

>dispite this widespread non-compliance and fierce fines available to the regulators the sky hasn't fallen

Don't you really see how absolutely wrong is this? When law is composed in a way which makes it in practice only selectively applicable, it leads to erosion of justice, and invites for corruption.