Living in the EU myself I'm personally seeing an awful lot of similarities between GDPR and the beginning of "The Great Firewall of China".
Tinfoil hat aside, for now I'm sticking with version 5.40 portable, of which I can mostly see what it sends. And I hope both Piriform and Avast will open up more about their relationship together and what exactly it is they want, or are forced into as they did in some of the most recent topics.