Again, I think you’re naive. The big tech companies and anyone with EU operations will comply, as they should since they are operating from those jurisdictions.
But other small and medium websites all over the world that don’t have EU operations will mostly just ignore this, as they should. It’s going to be nearly impossible to enforce for those companies, it’s a violation of national sovereignty, and half the regulations don’t even make much sense. How exactly are you supposed to avoid storing the personal information of EU residents when personal information includes IP address and that EU resident can be anywhere in the world? Or you have to delete the info if asked, but other laws require you to keep it? Now every medical facility in the world has to have entire new compliance procedure just in case an EU resident stumbles through their door?
Yeah, color me skeptical. You can pass any law you want, but it’s only as good as your ability to enforce it. If you think the US is going to help the EU collect multiple-million-dollar fines from some small business in Oklahoma, well, you’re going to be very disappointed.
We’ll see, but I doubt that in a couple years things will have changed all that much.