GDPR: Why We Stopped Selling Stuff to Europe
Data protection rules are this century&#x27;s equivalent of pollution regulation. The online ecosystem has trashed the global commons with huge amounts of everyone&#x27;s personal data, with no meaningful control or consent to how it is used, and now it needs to be cleaned up.<p>There are companies that will go out of business, or have to pivot heavily, as a result of GDPR. If this doesn&#x27;t happen, it&#x27;s is not doing its job.<p>More mainstream companies will grumble about this, just like they do about environmental regulations now. But, then as now, <i>we&#x27;ve done the experiment</i>. As an industry, we were left to self-regulate for 2.5 decades, and look what we did.<p>I am not looking forward to finishing our GDPR compliance. Anvil doesn&#x27;t rely on personal data for its business model, so it&#x27;s not a big deal, just a bit tedious - it&#x27;s a textbook frictional loss from regulation. But I <i>am</i> looking forward to living in a world where everyone has to comply.