Costin also said stores must be transparent and make sure we know the third parties they work with, who processes the data and so on.
Large online stores are aligned, as they have made all changes in the system, and the opt-out was the biggest problem. Small merchants are the main concern because they do not have the capacity to access the information, to pay a consultant to assist them with GDPR-related aspects and they have no money to hire an officer.
Talks should be held at an industry level, not at the level of each store. One must do something for the small players, considering that Romania boasts the biggest increase in Europe on the e-commerce segment. If the GDPR is implemented and nobody helps small players, this increase will stop.