[outside2344]

The general global legal principal here is that you can't charge someone for something that happened before the law came into effect.

So you are not correct on #1.

[jacquesm]

The law has been in effect for two years. And before that one there was another one.

[nickodell]

>The law has been in effect for two years.

"It was adopted on 14 April 2016, and after a two-year transition period, becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

>And before that one there was another one.

Yes, but that was a different law. It required different things.

[jacquesm]

The law came into effect on the 14th of April. The 'enforceable' does not mean it comes into a effect, it means that regulators have their powers unlocked to go after offenders.

> Yes, but that was a different law. It required different things.

It actually required a lot of the same things, but because companies decided to ignore it it was revised.

[Hamuko]

The regulation came into effect two years ago and I don't really believe that Instapaper hasn't been processing data for the past two years.

[davidgould]

By that standard, if you had purchased a child porn magazine in the 1970s when it was legal to do so, you would be in the clear if the police searched your house and found it. I am not a lawyer, but that doesn’t seem likely.