>Only applies to EU citizens' personal data

That's not true.

The GDPR applies to the personal data of anyone physically in the EU, to the extent that the data are processed[0] while they are in the EU.

It also applies to the personal data of anybody anywhere in the world if the data controllers are based in the EU.

The reason why it's different to US sanctions/export controls is that the GDPR doesn't say you can't work with certain people in certain circumstances because of who they are in order to punish those people for whatever reason. It's fundamentally to protect the data subjects.

[0] which includes collection of said data

Mid-thirties Brit here. I've never owned a credit card, neither has my partner.

All of our card transactions are with a debit card.

I've never needed instant-access debt so it's not really an attractive proposition. Perhaps the added consumer protection rules could be worth it, but it's not been an issue to date.

Depending on your annual spend you could be missing out on one or more free trips per year in airline and hotel points.

>judgment vs. judgement

In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.

>We'll see. It's not like police unions are making life better for citizens.

The police aren't allowed to join a union

The author is a former civil servant. I think it's safe to assume he knows that writing to his MP is an option...

For people in the UK, Prospect has a Tech Workers branch: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/

Prospect is my union (although I'm a member of a BECTU branch rather than the Tech Workers branch as I work in the broadcasting industry) and it's well worth the dues I pay.

I should note I’m US based.

This is great, thanks for sharing. Something like this could be a good resource for folks like me looking for prior art.

In recent decades unions have been demonized. And I understand some of the criticism, but IMO now is the time to get something organized for tech. The alternative is just to sleepwalk into the unemployment line

BTW this is the financial services company,[0] not the taxi company.[1]

I had never even heard of the former until now so I was quite confused until I realised it was an American fintech firm. Now it makes much more sense!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_Financial

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(company)

The regulation does cover everything that uses batteries.

>You're all angry at the wrong people.

No. We're not. Perhaps we should be angry at both, but we definitely should be angry at you.

Spam is bad. If your business can't survive without sending spam, your business shouldn't survive.

Yes, but there are a lot of gullible investors out there so calling themselves that will jack up the value of their shares.