[AnthonyMouse]

> Imagine if someone said "Food safety regulations only hurt the small businesses, they don't have the resources to wash a cutting board after cutting chicken while McDonalds serves unhealthy but legally safe food"

But that's exactly what we do. The health inspector doesn't come to your home to verify that you wash your cutting board, even on the day you have a dinner party to entertain business clients. Depending on local law you may or may not be expected to follow the same rules as McDonalds (getting a food service license etc.) when you hold a high school bake sale, but people commonly don't actually do it and governments commonly don't actually enforce it in those circumstances.

Because it's more important, and justifies a higher compliance burden, to ensure that the company serving billions of hamburgers isn't giving people food poisoning than the individual serving four.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

I believe your being down voted because it is common knowledge that food service legislation only applies to those selling food, and therefore intentionally doesn’t apply to dinner parties.

[AnthonyMouse]

Does the GDPR only apply to those selling personal information?

[jacobolus]

If your European friend tells you their phone number and you write it down on your refrigerator (or your public blog for that matter), the French government isn’t going to come fine you for violating GDPR.

[AnthonyMouse]

Is that what it says, or are you just saying they're not likely to enforce it in that way, and now we have a rarely enforced law that everybody violates and therefore the government can use it as a pretext to undemocratically destroy anybody that government officials don't like?

[Tomte]

Yes, it's what the law says.

[AnthonyMouse]

Wait, so you're saying it allows anyone to store and publish the personal information of Europeans? Without doing anything like have some way for people to contact you and request what information you have on them?

Then what does it actually do?