@Edent @jalal who said anything about large? AIUI you don't have a get-out-of-jail-free card just because you have a dozen users?

And there were plenty of people nervously eyeing the exit when GDPR came along. Fortunately (or not) all the "SEO experts" told them they could just stick up a consent banner and everything would be fine...

@Edent @jalal for sure, and for those of us old enough and grumpy enough to have been through this a few cycles, it's probably fine (let me show you my thick IR35 file).

But for the (majority of?) folk who aren't legally inclined, the choices appears to be (a) shut up shop, (b) spend significant money on a lawyer explaining wtf, or (c) risk terrifying fines on the basis that it *probably* won't come to pass.

I have complete sympathy for those who choose the path to walk away.

@Edent @jalal I read it more as someone who saw the non compliance fines at £18m and decided that it simply wasn't worth the risk.

It's clearly written to have that kind of chilling effect, and I can't easily blame anyone for feeling nervous.

@Edent @neil ah. well, that's all rather embarassing, isn't it?!

In my defence I was more responding to Neil's reply and ... I'll just be over here in the corner quietly rethinking my netiquette...

@neil @Edent isn't that all a bit "nobody needs more than 640k of RAM" though? I mean when I first upgraded to a 56k modem it seemed *more* than enough for my needs...

95% of people don't, right now, but who knows what we'll be doing with that connection in 5, 10 years time?