> Collecting personal data like that in Europe is hard and expensive to do legally
Only because the laws grew up around giants like Facebook. Prior to social media, it wouldn't have been a problem at all. You'd have no trouble setting up a small forum, blog, or mailing list.
We're in the predicament we're in precisely because of Facebook.
There might still be a cheap way to accomplish GDPR compliance as a small band, artist, company, etc. It doesn't seem hard to manually implement right to forget / data portability on the small scale. It's bolting onto big, existing businesses with lots of processes already in place that is expensive.
Only because the laws grew up around giants like Facebook. Prior to social media, it wouldn't have been a problem at all. You'd have no trouble setting up a small forum, blog, or mailing list.
We're in the predicament we're in precisely because of Facebook.
There might still be a cheap way to accomplish GDPR compliance as a small band, artist, company, etc. It doesn't seem hard to manually implement right to forget / data portability on the small scale. It's bolting onto big, existing businesses with lots of processes already in place that is expensive.