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 i

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.