I'm glad I no longer have to find people that are fit to be employed to do real work with computers and data.  I retired 8 years and a few months ago, but I still keep up with things like data protection regulations, and keep my eyes open for ny interesting work opportunities, but even now i can say with certainty that if I were working there would be no imaginable way I could contemplate hiring a data professional who didn't have a very clear grasp of the available information about GDPR and its introduction timescale.  Especially not someone with 30 years senior level experience.  GDPR is quite a big thing, and not conforming will be extremely painful for anyone operating in the EU (or in Britain after it leaves the EU, if it actually does next year).

Incidentally, in the current safe-harbor replacement agreement the US administration has committed itself to enforce EU citizen's rights about data on them held and/or processed in the USA as it would be enforced in the EU if it was held and processed there - so database people on the American side of the Atlantic had better learn about GDPR pretty soon, as the administration will come down on them like a ton of bricks to ensure that a data regulator in an EU country will not find that the agreement is not being honoured and will not deliver a formal decision that European PID cannot be allowed to be held or processed in the USA (or by an American company, even one operating in the EU, if the Supremes decide that MS must give the justice department the Irish data it is asking for, since Irish law - and EU law generally -  says that that data can't be handed over unless a court order is issued by the Irish courts as a result of evidence being given that demonstrates that one of the essential exceptions to protection applies - and as the justice department has so such evidence it's not going to get that order from an Irish court).

Unfortunately, none of the intelligence services anywhere in the world can be trusted to pay any attention at all to GDPR, except perhaps to use it to help them hide evidence of them faking intelligence.