Dr. Johnny Ryan:

The answer is "Yes". The GDPR makes personal data privacy a fundamental right. We have over 51% of global GDP if we consider all of the jurisdictions with GDPR clones on the way.

There is a question about special category data, which is very sensitive information about people. If one were to ask Facebook what it thinks about the fact that I might attend a Catholic church and read about Catholic issues, the response would be that that is an interesting collection of interests but it will only accept as special category data the word "Catholic" if written in the box next to religion. We have to be careful with these industries, even when there are tight, legal definitions. Where the enforcers are asleep in the middle of systematic infringement of this new regulatory framework which is emerging as a de factoglobal standard then this place being the home of that framework will show that the framework is not sustainable.