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> The first question could be: are you in the EU? Just to be clear - it's about EU citizens, not EU located-people, and your location can change. You have to a

• robin_reala 9y ago
  To be doubly-clear, it’s both. GDPR talks about “EU residents”, and that potentially covers people born in EU countries, people who’ve taken EU citizenship, people who are resident in the EU but aren’t citizens, people on holiday in the EU and potentially even people transferring through an EU country while travelling. https://cybercounsel.co.uk/data-subjects/ https://cybercounsel.co.uk/data-subjects/
• kasey_junk 9y ago
  Some legal teams have suggested to specifically not adopt that interpretation and rather to assume it covers anyone on EU soil at the time of the data collection or when they make the access/delete requests. This feels to me as not a lawyer as something that will only be clear after precedent is set. I for one don’t want to be a test case.
• _o_ 9y ago
  For the ideas like those, there was a post on pagefair https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/tracking-walls/ https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/tracking-walls/ And dont forget that the next regulation is ePrivacy regulative which might fix workarounds like you are proposing. The idea of GDPR is about human rights and if you are having a problem with protecting them, than I think GDPR is not a problem, you are.
• gcb0 9y ago
  first question. but first decision even before that is if the company providing the site is under EU regulation. Most companies just moved the site to their non-eu parts and handled it with internal cost centers. The ones that couldn't do that or that had to show EU sold ads are the ones stuck with the cookie "OK-only" popups.