[enjo]

The good news is there's going to be at least some echo effect here. I work for a US based company, although the vast majority of our users are in Asia. We're implementing GDPR for everyone. It won't affect the companies that exist solely to spam you much, but for most companies the technical issues of ONLY implementing this in the EU are simply too great.

So everyone will get at least some benefit. But ya, it'd be great if other governments took this as seriously.

[Doxin]

I feel like it's also the case for many companies that they'd like to implement GDPR-like tools for users, but as long no one is paying them to do so it's a waste of time. GDPR is a nice excuse to build that functionality and roll it out to all your users.