With the deadline for those serving EU customers to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally here, companies are tightening up information governance structures, sending out new privacy policy updates to consumers, and preparing for the regulation’s mandate that individual consumers be able to request the return and erasure of their personal data from big companies.

Blockchain technology companies, however, are worried they may not be able to do enough to comply with their GDPR obligations. Not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t.