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I wonder what kind of lawyer your company consulted with. Are you sure they are experience with EU law? If they where American lawyers with no international law experience. Asking them would probably be as helpful as asking a Common Lisp expert about help with your Java application, if you are lucky it might work out, but probably not. In the same way not all programing languages are the same, nor is all law the same.

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The irony is is that that’s is exactly one fo the manor problems with the GDPR.

And the GP sounds like a large business a small business that maybe has 50 orders a month form EU customers won’t be able to afford a top tier international firm, hire a mandatory local representative and open themselves to this level of liability.

The irony is that the companies that can both comply and abuse the GDPR to their benefit are the ones that regulation such as the GDPR was supposed to protect us from.

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