I am surprised that nobody has mentioned it here yet. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was implemented on 25th May. If you didn't hear about it then you are probably living under a rock. GDPR is supposed to let European Union citizens control their personal data.
A lot of people have been complaining about GDPR. Some people say that it is a huge hassle for small businesses because it increases the amount of work that needs to be done and preparations which, in some cases, might have been expensive. There were 2 years to prepare for the GDPR so why so many people are complaining? It wasn't a sudden change in the law, but, still, there are many websites which decided to simply block the EU IP address ranges.
I would like to hear opinions of European and other bitcointalk members.
Imho it's a poorly written law.
The first result of the law was that I've got Thursday a tremendous amount of spam. Everybody decided to ask me that day about this. Guess what? Most mails were ignored.
I can bet that some smarter script kiddies have sent plenty of phishing that day too.
The other result is that some services (even from the banks) may not be working properly anymore since they need now explicit acceptance of the rules to send whatever notifications (like the card has expired).
The result will be that everything you want to do will start with: do you want our service? then please accept this full GDPR compliant form and then we can discuss. Yesterday I couldn't access weather.com from my smartphone because their form didn't display or redirect correctly.
I've heard that some American services have just simply closed their doors for European customers because of this. Yet another way to "comply".
So all in all it's a lot of hassle for something that will actually not help much (or at all).
