[Silhouette]

This transition period is ending this summer. Why is this discussion taking place now?

Because no-one thought to inform most of the businesses affected by it before, and awareness has only grown in recent weeks (and even then probably only among business people who frequent forums like HN where the subject has come up).

[vidarh]

> (and even then probably only among business people who frequent forums like HN where the subject has come up).

Every business I've worked with over the last couple of years of consulting have had sessions on GDPR entirely without any technically minded people having to bring it up.

I'm sure there will be people caught by surprise, by what I've seen has been very promising.

[Silhouette]

Every business I've worked with over the last couple of years of consulting

OK, but if you're going into a business and consulting, that already suggests both a certain scale and a degree of awareness within those businesses, so this isn't likely to be a representative sample.

[vidarh]

I'm not consulting on the GDPR, and my clients range from 2-person companies to 2000 people with most of them being much closer to the low end than the high, so while it certainly will be a biased selection in other respects (e.g. they're companies with a certain degree of technical complexity) I don't think it says much about awareness (other than already having more tech staff) or scale.

Additionally, most companies without much technical infrastructure are less likely to be affected much in the first place.