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Why not just fulfill the request?

• danieltillett 9y ago
  Principle. The idea that a country that you have no relationship with can apply their laws to you as they wish and you have to comply is insane. What if North Korea passes a law that says 99.9% of your income has to be given to the DPRK? Are you going to comply with this? EUFU.
  • romanovcode 9y ago
    What principle. So you will not comply with a user who wants to remove his personal data from your service by his request just because of principle? In theory any person should be able to ask a service to remove all his personal data if he wishes. EU just makes this a law which, IMO is very good. It's funny how people praise privacy and at the same time don't want to do anything about it for their userbase.
    • danieltillett 9y ago
      The principle that a country can apply its laws over me despite me neither being a citizen, resident, or in anyway connected with that country. If a user asked me to remove their data I would, but I don't want to do this because some entity on the other side of the world decides to apply their laws to me. Allowing this sort of activity is only going to end in tears.
  • jgimenez 9y ago
    Whatever principles you have, laws apply in every country you operate. You're free to operate or not in a certain country, but if you do, you need to abide the laws protecting your users.
    • danieltillett 9y ago
      I don't operate in the EU, but that does not stop the EU passing laws that they claim apply to me. I can't believe that anyone thinks this is a good idea.