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I'm a traveler, just because I'm not coming from EU IP address range, doesn't mean I'm not EU citizen with rights established by EU.
The GDPR's scope is based on geography, not citizenship. If you're an EU citizen currently in the US, you do not necessarily enjoy whatever rights and protections the GDPR might offer you if you were within the EU. If you're a US citizen currently in the EU, you do enjoy those protections.
I have ~600 small business customers from the EU who are using my SaaS product and until now I received zero requests regarding GDPR. It seems it was the right decision to ignore this law, because no one cares about it. The same thing was with the cookie banner. Never built it into the product and in 6 years not even a single person asked about it...
The cookie banner is different because everyone knew it was completely meaningless. Whether GDPR is or not remains to be seen; it's certainly not an "everybody knows" situation yet.
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That's not how most regulations work. If you are a chemical company selling something that is legal in the US but illegal in the EU, the EU doesn't use your bank to enforce their regulations on your business in the US. Using the banks to cut off commerce across borders is an enforcement action for what countries agree are crimes - terrorism, money laundering, fraud, etc. It takes a lot of political willpower and nego…
The US used this against Rossmann GmbH, which was a German company, in Germany, selling cuban cigars to a German. And they got cut off from PayPal, and the credit card networks for quite a while. If the US can use it for selling a product in a store that’s entirely legal to sell under EU law, then the EU can also use the same rules for GDPR.
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Arrests when an operator visits an EU country? I mean, that's how the US seems to get gambling company CEOs and internet betting site operators...
I find it pretty problematic that the US does that to gambling site operators. People who do things that are legal where they live should not have to fear that they'll get arrested when they visit a foreign country just because those things are not legal in that country.
There is a lot of discussion about GDPR from an American perspective. I'm curious about the Chinese one. Does the EU really expect Baidu, WeChat and Tencent to comply with these rules? Or is this just a roundabout way of extracting bureaucratic benefits from American technology companies?
Yes, of course. If they do business in the eu, they will need to comply. If they don’t do business in EU, then they dont have to follow eu rules.
This is a ridiculous interpretation of the law. Brought to you by some «experts» in Colorado. If you had followed EU policy discussions over the last 10 years, you would realize this is about creating a single, unified online market. Meaning a citizen living in Poland should have access to the same online services as a German, unless there are valid reasons for denying him.
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By the way, why is IP so important to this many? The only reason I can think of is browser fingerprinting, but for that, IP is actually secondary. Why even bother storing IP apart from temporary/ephemeral security, say, fail2ban?
Not just IPs, The regulation knows about all of them (including RFID): Preamble paragraph 30: > Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers a…
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The GDPR's scope is based on geography, not citizenship. If you're an EU citizen currently in the US, you do not necessarily enjoy whatever rights and protections the GDPR might offer you if you were within the EU. If you're a US citizen currently in the EU, you do enjoy those protections.
Hmm, that's interesting, I was convinced it's based on citizenship.
Fun fact: The word "citizen" doesn't actually appear in the GDPR at all.
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Whenever I read "Blocking entire EU" I classify it as a romanticized revenge daydreaming. No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol. Just look at FB, Google and the rest of the advertising companies. They bent over backwards trying to accodomate the law. But: GDRP will filter out businesses that existed in t…
> No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol. Just look at FB, Google and the rest of the advertising companies. That's true for big companies. The calculation changes for small companies, and really changes for hobby projects.
For small companies one mistake and they could be out of business. So its easier to avoid the problem to begin with.