Or just become the digital nomad and move off to Budapest like many of my past colleagues and friends.
I don't have the emotional depth at this point to articulate a well thought out perspective on what impact these laws will have one me, our industry or my own personal safety in Australia.
But I can say for sure, that the entire thing is completely fucked.
If you're British you can roam freely through the EU. I can recommend Germany instead: strong privacy laws, and due to recent history (WWI, WWII, Cold War) there is a relative strong pro privacy mindset. Though I recommend learning German if you intend to settle in large cities such as Berlin and international companies or IT you can easily get away with English.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem likely that this will last much longer, unless the UK makes a u-turn on brexit.
Really terrible companies, in short.
Wonder if whoever did the initial short term "lets outsource it!" thinking had moved on by the stage the lawsuit happened?
I guess I'll forfeit them both and just... go some where else?
To the seas!
[1] Honestly, it'll mostly be integrating different ML opensource solutions together and maybe some FOSS contribution from what i've seen.
Edit: typo, spare=sparse.