[asdajksah2123]

The GDPR has been a godsend for me as a developer.

It provides me with a language to speak with the product and marketing side of our business when pushing back against unnecessary surveillance and requesting resources for data security. And even when I'm working with a team that is unconcerned about the ethical side of things, the GDPR places a cost on collecting data that can be used to prevent at least some of the worst suggested ideas purely on a net value basis.

This was not the case before the GDPR where data security and privacy were of limited concern and everyone was trying to collect as much data as possible on our users.

My company's products have never been in the GDPR's radar but even without facing any threat of direct consequence from GDPR it has indirectly been responsible for us creating a significantly better product for both our users and for the company as well.

[rqtwteye]

Same here. GDPR has forced us to think more about customer data and how we store it.

[plorkyeran]

Yeah, there's been a number of times where I've pointed out that the thing product is asking for has GDPR implications and then the critical data collection we Must Have magically turns out to not be all that important after all. Even when we go forward with things in a GDPR-compliant way it's made it a lot easier to push back on some user-hostile things and ship something much less awful.