Four years on, is the GDPR a pain or a forerunner in data protection?

Accept all cookies? This question sprung up on websites across the internet after the EU rolled out its GDPR rules, forcing companies to tell people how they are tracked when loading a website. — dpa

Few Internet laws generate more opinions than the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Many companies see these regulations as expensive, unwieldy EU bureaucracy. Online privacy activists, meanwhile, say things have massively improved for consumers.

Four years ago, the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the toughest data protection regulation on the world. How well is it working?