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Re:GDPR: Don't Panic by ric2b on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:43PM (#17103380)
A bunch of companies are going to do this and then regret it when they notice that their competitors really didn't have to do much work to become compliant.

Then they'll try to come back... after their EU user-base was kicked out and forced to find alternatives.

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Re:GDPR: Don't Panic by apple4ever on Friday May 18, 2018 @05:11PM (#17104976)
That’s assuming that a competitor can make it cost effective.

If the original business couldn’t, its unlikely the competitor could.

I know in my business I’m shutting off EU sales.

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Re:GDPR: Don't Panic by _Tev on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:35AM (#17118240)
> If the original business couldn’t, its unlikely the competitor could.

Considering amount of FUD spread about fines, even here, with fairly educated readership - I don't think you can really trust other people's cost / benefit analysis, even when they happen to have same variables with same values.

People are often wrong even in much clearer cases . . .

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