I am also of the same mind. I had a project with a friend where we collected data that would fall under this. We were once told that we had to comply with some "order" from CNIL to stop collection, which we just laughed and ignored.

It's a joke that the same government will go ahead and collect info for "protect the public from terrorists" purposes, yet try to constrain a company outside of their jurisdiction from collecting simmilar information with no real mechanism of enforcement.

People really think these technologies are just going to crawl in a ditch somewhere because some eurocrats (and those who've accepted the bread and circus they provide to the public) want to put pen to paper and act as if these are laws of phyisics... next we'll hear madates that all companies around the world must offer affordable privacy in a can™ for the EU chattel.

The more deep packet inspection/filtering of non complient sites, the more resilient the web will become, so I look forward to the continued escalation.

Then don't do business with EU citizens/residents.