[megaman22]

GDPR is going to be a tax on software for a good chunk of time, and probably a decent source of employment for engineers, as companies wake up and realize that they now have to deal with it. Unless there specifically are requirements to make deleting user data easy, or even possible, that's probably been punted on for years in most software products.

[gerdesj]

GDPR is going to be a tax on software for a good chunk of time

Unless you are Facebook or Google or Amazon or Microsoft (etc), most reasonably responsible companies will already be very close to GDPR compliance. The regulations really are not too onerous.

"Don't be evil" might cover it ...

[taeric]

From what I've seen, I wouldn't be too surprised if some practices make this hard for some companies. In particular, mixing customer data with company data and having a practice of tomb stoning rows.

[OtterCoder]

Tomb stoning?

[themacguffinman]

Marking a database record as "dead" to hide it from view without actually deleting the data.

[taeric]

Thanks for answering! Apologies if I used a term that isn't wide use, yet.