[Nursie]

I don't think undoing the GDPR would be doing "the right thing", personally. I'm hoping that's legislation we keep for the time being, until we can figure out how to do it better. But fundamentally it's pulling in the right direction.

You're right that in a lot of the UK software folks are viewed as 'beneath' the management and business types though, and not valued in the same way as they are in other economies. Useless arseholes with few worthwhile skills can get paid a ton if they can talk themselves into a position as a delivery manager or project manager.

[mfDjB]

In regards to GDPR, I agree it's the right thing for consumers, but it puts compliance pressure on startups. So from the perspective of a startup, I could see its removal being a positive.

(Note that is just from the perspective of a startup)

[rswail]

Don't collect information about your customers that you don't need to provide the service to them.

If they decide to delete their account and request that they be forgotten, delete that data that you only needed while providing the service.

It's not hard to comply, and it's a cost of doing business that you have to accept. If you implement it right, then you'll be compliant by default. Not sure how not being compliant is a positive for any startup.

It's the law in the EU, so unless you want to cut out a market of half a billion people, you have to comply.

[Hallucinaut]

It shouldn't be acceptable for startups, nor anyone else, to play fast and loose with personal data, just as it isn't with financial data.

Unless your business model revolves around usage of personal data, in which case GDPR is a very useful set of minimum baseline requirements for handling the data, compliance is fairly trivial.