[msumpter]

And I think the fact they have to respect the requests regardless of where the European individual is today (eg in the US at time of posting but still a French national). I think enough companies are aware they don’t want to blanket blacklist all requests from Europe along with the mix of EU visitors, it makes it impossible to decern what rules applies where. I wonder if we’ll start to see US based users claim they are European to attempt to remove references, how would a tech company decern between legit and illegit requests (asking for proof of ID creates yet another potential storage of EU data). I suspect most companies won’t vet the requests and just comply or risk the potential huge fines

[icebraining]

they have to respect the requests regardless of where the European individual is today

That's not the case, as far as I understand it; the GDPR protects people in the EU, not EU citizens wherever they are.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-does-apply-eu-citizens-g...