GDPR has slowed the deployment of privacy-preserving technologies because it was poorly thought out and is based on a lot of bad assumptions. It has also creat

GDPR has slowed the deployment of privacy-preserving technologies because it was poorly thought out and is based on a lot of bad assumptions. It has also created a larger burden for running a user-facing web company in Europe, to the benefit of the very incumbent companies it was meant to target without actually changing anything about their business models. As for the right to be forgotten, that is nothing more than an attempt to restore yesterday's status quo. The fact is that computers are very good at storing data, indexing that stored data, and finding more data to add to searchable indexes. The only reason this so-called "right" can even be enforced is that the search market is dominated by a single search engine; if that market were more competitive, something that could theoretically happen at any time (and ironically something the EU seems to want to have happen), it would quickly become impossible to actually enforce the "right." Basically this is like the "right to fly around on a broomstick" -- it is not really grounded in reality.