[maximus1983]

"I happen to know quite a lot about GDPR because I dealt with it at a client I was previously working with,"

There we go. You already done the time investment at someone else's expense. So thanks for proving my point.

My comments weren't about GDPR but about regulation in general. Any regulation requires more work which makes it difficult for smaller players. You had to do the extra work.

[hannasanarion]

Should we ban food inspections too, since that means smaller players have to do more work? How about automobile safety testing, it's such a hassle for auto makers. Why not get rid of building codes and prohibitions on lead in children's toys while we're at it.

[danso]

I imagine the anti-GDPR-folks might argue that overly onerous restrictions have been harmful to smaller players. Temperature requirements effectively made Peking duck illegal in California, until a lawmaker representing the Chinatown area proposed a law specifically exempting it: https://www.sgvtribune.com/2015/08/22/peking-duck-is-so-impo...

[maxxxxx]

Should we also abandon the regulation on not stealing things? It makes my startup idea much more difficult too.

Individuals' rights over their data should just be another human right like property rights and not being harmed by others.

[zhte415]

> Any regulation requires more work

Thinking about what you do and how you do it is probably not a bad thing.

[Daishiman]

Two day's worth of research. Horrible, absolutely horrible.

[Mirioron]

Because that knowledge is worth thousands to tens of thousands of euros in lawyer time. And you're still not guaranteed to get it right or be covered.

Your example is like saying that everyone that wants any kind of job should know multi variable calculus. When people protest that that's putting too much of a burden on people, you bring up that you got a job just fine, because you learned multi variable calculus in school.