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Does GDPR apply for my new data if I created my account in Europe but now live abroad? > The European law, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
by ggregoire 9y ago
Does GDPR apply for my new data if I created my account in Europe but now live abroad?
> The European law, called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the biggest overhaul of online privacy since the birth of the internet, giving Europeans the right to know what data is stored on them and the right to have it deleted.
Are we talking about soft or hard delete?
- thakoppno 9y agoIf you are a EU citizen, GDPR applies irrespective of where you physically are located.
- huehehue 9y agoThis is one of the sorta controversial aspects -- the consensus is you either hard-delete or, if that's impossible or difficult, writing over or otherwise scrubbing the personal data bits with the goal of removing that data from a given person's identity.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- BeeOnRope 9y agoIt applies to the person and doesn't depend on where you were when you created the account. If you are an EU citizen (possibly living abroad) or a current EU resident, you get the protections. If you created the account in the EU but are now living outside and are not an EU citizen, it would not apply to you (until, perhaps, you returned to being an EU resident).
- icebraining 9y agoThat's not my impression; EU citizens abroad don't seem to be covered. I'm not an expert, though.
- BeeOnRope 9y agoYup, you are rght and I was wrong. EU residents outside the EU are not covered by the GDPR. In practice, they may still be able to invoke many of the protections depending on how they are implemented.
- 24gttghh 9y agoHow about some facts, or well, FAQ's[0]: >Who does the GDPR affect? The GDPR not only applies to organisations located within the EU but it will also apply to organisations located outside of the EU if they offer goods or services to, or monitor the behaviour of, EU data subjects. It applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Emphasis, mine. [0]https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html
- BeeOnRope 9y agoYup, you are right. EU citizens don't get the benefits of the GDPR if they are outside the union. So all of this "will they make you upload your passport?" stuff seems to be mostly nonsense since it apparently has nothing to do with citizenship.
- 24gttghh 9y agoWell it seems like being covered as a "natural person" would mean you need to be a resident and a citizen of a given EU member state?
- BeeOnRope 9y agoWell IANAL but the couple of summaries I read on this specific issue (who is covered) seemed to take the position that EU-resident non-citizens would be covered, including perhaps even just travelers and other people passing through. I admit to not having looked into it in depth, however.
- rmc 9y agoYou probably created your account was with Facebook Ireland Ltd (and I'm sure still are with that entity). So GDPR applies to companies within the EU, i.e. yes.