Compliance with GDPR is easy though - don't aggressively track and monitor European visitors. If you've stuffed your website that full with invasive trackers et al that you can't show it to Europeans for fear of broaching personal privacy legislation, you should probably have a good long think about where you've gone wrong.
There are people who aren't doing anything wrong, who did the math and decided they can't clear a profit on proving they aren't doing anything wrong.
What’s wrong with actively investigating your own compliance?
What government permissions are you even talking about?
You must consult in case, quote “processing would result in a high risk in the absence of measures taken by the controller to mitigate the risk”.
You keep imagining things and expect me to have an argument about them.
What I do care about is for companies getting the highest possible fines for their mismanagement of user data. Like British Airways, https://www.wired.co.uk/article/british-airways-data-breach-...
'Sarah Toporoff, a Massachusetts native who works in Paris for the Global Editors Network, which promotes newsroom innovation, raised similar questions. She said U.S. newsrooms “are a benchmark for digital innovation” — and it’s important that their content be available in Europe.'
'It is naive and wholly irresponsible to think that U.S. news holds no relevance beyond U.S. borders...'
Perhaps, then, Europe should've had some international discussion about their hyper-aggressive legislation, to try and prevent this situation. I am dumbfounded that anyone thinks the U.S. corporations are to blame for not spending millions to comply with a foreign law from countries where they have no legal representation.
Preventing that sort of 'taxation without representation' is something of a popular idea over here.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/more-than-1000-u-s-news-si...