I always wondered about a possible loophole in opt-out.
Could you create legal entities fast/cheap enough and delay compliance long enough so that any private data, requested for deletion, can be transfered from the old opted-out entity to the new one, over and over again?
This could render the entire opt-out approach useless, right? Because in order to reach your goal of deletion, you must get ahead of the transfer curve.
I don't see them being on the resident's side when it comes to something as valuable as data. I agree with you on this. They'll play the loop hole long enough that by then your data has conjoined and transverses into some other data: it has served it's purpose.