As an owner of a US business myself, I will not be complying with these EU laws, period.<p>The US government already requires me to know who my users are in the sense that they must be able to warrant&#x2F;subpoena me for any data that belongs to my customers, even if my customers attempt to delete their accounts with me: if I still have the data in my company&#x27;s possession, whatever data I have that is covered by the warrant&#x2F;subpoena must be turned over.<p>So, if a EU customer says &quot;oh, you must delete every data you ever had about me&quot;, and the US government THEN comes and warrants&#x2F;subpoenas my company shortly after, can I theoretically be held in contempt of court or be charged with destruction of evidence? Possibly.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but as an American, I&#x27;m going to comply with US law here.<p>It&#x27;s one thing to require explicit consent to share data with non-government third parties, or with the government without warrant or subpoena, but it is another thing to explicitly require consent for <i>them</i> to enter data into <i>your</i> app, service, or product.<p>As in, real name field? Address field? Phone number field? Email field? Somehow, the user inputting data into those fields of their own volition still does not constitute explicit consent to store and use that data for purposes of making the service&#x2F;product happen.<p>The law, as mentioned in the article, also has no provisions for legal, financial, or tax purposes. Let&#x27;s say I am someday audited by the IRS, and I can&#x27;t match where money came from to an actual customer, they can punish me for that: I can&#x27;t go tell them, &quot;oh, User #1931, they used some EU law to force me to delete all their data, so all I know is they sent me money in exchange for goods and&#x2F;or services, but I no longer know their name, their address, or even their Paypal account name.&quot;<p>So, yeah, no. I&#x27;m all for privacy and rights, but this just doesn&#x27;t work. This is just as backwards as the cookies law they passed a while back, forcing me to close annoying banners at the tops of websites to &quot;consent&quot; to cookies, and I&#x27;m not even European!<p>Also, one last thing, I must be able to let my user download all data about them? No more &quot;walled silos&quot;? I imagine there is an entire classification of apps that you could never produce useful results out of this, ie, you can&#x27;t just import it into another service or app and continue on as if nothing changed. Like, imagine being able to export your entire Evernote everything and try to import into OneNote, or vise versa. It just wouldn&#x27;t work all that well, even though they are similar apps.