[Aerroon]

I thought this was obvious. I've been saying since day 1 that GDPR won't help much with privacy. It might even do the opposite by making people feel that their data is safe. But a company beyond the jurisdiction of the EU can simply ignore GDPR and vacuum up all the data they want.

What will ultimately help with privacy is not leaking out this data in the first place. Push browsers and other such services/devices to stop leaking enormous amounts of information on the user.

That's not to say that GDPR isn't useful. It certainly is, because it stops the big legal businesses from doing it, but it also has the downside of harming European online businesses.

[malka]

UE should do as China do. A big firewall that block all US business that do not comply with GDPR.

[Aerroon]

The end result is the fracturing of the internet. You'll have the Chinese internet, the EU internet, the Russian internet etc. The internet kind of loses its meaning at that point.

Also, I do remember reading some kind of EU document that this is what they were thinking of.