Instead to permanently criticize EU regulations and to accept to be sucked by many companies "for free", it could be the appropriate time to think about how valuable and private our personal data are. Likewise, if some of my data are stored outside of my "boundary", they remain my data and I must be able to delete them or to transfer them.
It is the only purpose of GDPR: enabling the data owner to master and to control its data.
Even if GDPR is not perfect, I think that it represents a good progress for data owners and at least for EU citizen (and probably for non EU citizen as well).
It was never the intention of GDPR to "kill" blogs and discussion forums as long as such entities do not start to make business with the privacy of their users.
Cheers,
Yves

I had a tsunami, too, KLiK
-fortunately it ended in style when I confirmed that I
still
wanted the newsletter from my local movie theatre
- the one I asked for myself, you know ....

Probably the country field I guess. I've been thinking about not parsing that bit and removing it from my stats even if that seems extreme.

One example of the tsunami of e-mails that I received yesterday (i.e., the day after this came into being), rather amused me - as it was asking ME to comply with the GDPR. Not only that, it was from a company that I'd never heard of, and who had my surname as 'NO_LAST_NAME' (yes, they addressed me in the e-mail as that!!!!)

Needless to say, I didn't click on the button they'd included in the body of the email asking me to provide my consent....

I've not got a clue as to where they got my first name/e-mail address from, but hopefully, through this new regulation, they'll delete my details from their database.

If nothing else, it's allowed me to review as to who's got my e-mail address and let me decide as to whether I still want to receive their correspondence (rather than approaching this process in a peicemeal manner).

Thank you for that post, KerSamson
- so full of insight and commitment as how to go about these ideas in a sensible manner
- and yes the incubation period was somewhat longer than a few days