An unwanted update to your Google Account

Post by croes » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #33

floatingatoll wrote: post #8

Can EU citizens living in Malaysia long-term exercise their GDPR rights when Google decides that they reside in Malaysia?

No, because the GDPR doesn't apply to citizens, but to companies. It only applies to companies that target the EU for their services: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

Post by croes » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 4:48 PM UTC

Jaygles wrote: post #2

I understand the author's frustration. But until someone finds out how a company that operates globally can satisfy the laws of the countries their customers are located in without associating the accounts with a country, I'm not sure what we can do. > What I find curious is that it says the services are essentially the same between different countries. So, there is no advantage to me as a consumer for anything to ch…

Post by monkeybutton » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

croes wrote: post #93

Jaygles wrote: post #2

I understand the author's frustration. But until someone finds out how a company that operates globally can satisfy the laws of the countries their customers are located in without associating the accounts with a country, I'm not sure what we can do. > What I find curious is that it says the services are essentially the same between different countries. So, there is no advantage to me as a consumer for anything to ch…

BTW companies like Paypal enforced US boycotts on cuba even if the customer is a EU citizens. "The ticket retailer Proticket, for example, filed a lawsuit against the blocking of its account after offering tickets for the musical "Soy de Cuba" and the concert of a Cuban artist. Although Proticket won its case at the Dortmund Regional Court in spring 2016, Paypal still did not change its approach."

Post by Skunkleton » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 4:58 PM UTC

karaterobot wrote: post #40

If he lives in Germany, and they mistakenly changed his location to Malaysia, I understand his complaint. But, you can't just say "I want you to treat me as though I lived in a different country than I do, because I prefer their laws on this particular subject". Granted, I wish Google's approach to privacy was better all around, but given that they want to gobble up as much data as possible, and we all know about tha…

Post by waych » Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

dpwm wrote: post #69

waych wrote: post #46

Xoogler here. The way I remember this working is that it is entirely dependent on the methods of payment (MOP) associated with your account. If you remove MOPs from country A, and then 30 days later you add a MOP from country B, your underlying gaia account will have the home country migrated (affects play store, etc). The workaround is to use different accounts, each with MOP from different countries. Pretty sure IP…

Never worked at google, but I use their services and moved country recently. > The workaround is to use different accounts, each with MOP from different countries. Pretty sure IP doesn't matter. Maybe it has changed, because this was not my experience: my methods of payments have all remained the same. It appears to be based on IP, because my transition was delayed compared to family members who moved with me because…