In reply to André.

"...just because someone isn’t in Europe, won’t save them..."
This post isn't about the application if the said law, GDPR, but I think I should point is out. EU law isn't a world law. Neither can EU enforces their law on Africa, etc. to do so is monopoly.

WordPress should be more concern in developing the core, and not implementing a minority law.
There are programmers and plugins that cantake good care of things like GDPR just as jetpack is taking care of EU cookies law.

WirdPress should focus on feature and functions.