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I feel like this whole thing with the GDPR is people fighting each other for the wrong reasons.<p>The people for it argue that gets large companies to behave better.<p>The people against it argue that it&#x27;s unnecessarily complicated, poorly drafted and burdensome to small businesses.<p>But it&#x27;s <i>both at the same time</i>.<p>The issue is that it doesn&#x27;t have to be. It&#x27;s possible to get the desired effect without using such a complicated system, and to mitigate the impact it imposes.<p>For example, one of the major burdens on small businesses is the cost of producing the data the company has on you -- but there is a simple way to fix that. Require the requester to pay the cost of collecting the information, similar to FOIA requests in the US. Then the requirement is no longer an unfunded mandate and can&#x27;t be used by griefers as a method of harassment.<p>Nobody bothered to use common sense like that when drafting it, so now in order to fix it, it has to be thrown out and rewritten. But then the people who support the spirit of the law end up fighting against the people who oppose the letter of the law, even though everybody really wants the same thing.