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Comment by shados

Its correct purely because of jurisdiction. EU laws don't apply for people with no presence in the EU, unless there was some kind of treaty where one country agrees to enforce another's.

That's just how laws, any law, works. The EU can "fine" all they want but it would be entirely symbolic.

That's like if US restaurants had to enforce EU food safety laws when on US soil because a EU citizen is eating there.

Fortunatelly, unlike US laws, GDPR, by virtue of being EU law, is actually readable by normal human beings, so its fairly straightforward:

https://gdpr.eu/article-3-requirements-of-handling-personal-...

parent shados 1 year ago

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