Nah. I know of several startups that had nothing but anonymous telemetry and they blocked all Europe because there was no capacity for compliance. I was at an incubator at the time and the decision was unanimous across a dozen or so companies. It’s not like anyone was going to lose out on VC money from that market
And it's a bit hard to believe that these several startups functioned without ever collecting names, emails, IP, phone number, or address of any lead or customer ever.
Maybe they did? Who knows? Never gonna find out because no one had time to look into it. It certainly wasn’t done with malicious intent, perhaps by accident or oversight, which is likely the situation in most small companies.
