https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html

Hands up. Who has actually read all of it?

Speaking as somebody who actually has - was teaching computer security last term - I found it relatively easy to read (as legal documents go) - but it still took a weekend. I will guarantee you, that not all of the high powered lawyers whose job it is to read it, have done that.

True story: back in the days when libraries still stamped your book with the date it was due back, I took out a copy of Keynes General Theory from the main library where I lived. It's not that thick of a book, and according to the date stamps it had been borrowed at least 20 or so times. About half way through the pages hadn't been cut.

It was a few years before the significance of that finally dawned on me. As in many things in life, HN discussions on the GDPR are a wonderful example of nobody actually reading it, and everybody having an opinion of it.