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While that may be technically true, the specifics of the law would make it impossible to follow unless companies assumed everyone who visited their site was an
by fasteddie 9y ago
While that may be technically true, the specifics of the law would make it impossible to follow unless companies assumed everyone who visited their site was an EU citizen.
For example , using google analytics in many cases in the EU will now require opt-in consent, even for anonymous visitors. But unless a user registers and says, "hey, I'm an EU Citizen actually" you wouldn't know ahead of time. Make much more sense to segment for EU IPs if you are a large company that relies on such stuff to make decisions.
- mercer 9y ago> Make much more sense to segment for EU IPs if you are a large company that relies on such stuff to make decisions. That could be risky for EU users abroad or behind VPN's, no? While I understand the 'plight' of companies who rely on data sucking in some way, this strikes me as a good reason to just assume everyone is from the EU and figure out how to make a profit despite that.
- fasteddie 9y agoMy unprofessional, based on nothing guess is that no one will be prosecuted for that kind of technicality, as there will be much bigger fish to fry of large companies totally flaunting major pieces of the law.
- SahAssar 9y agoI'd love to setup a basic, solar powered, satellite VPN on Hans Island just to legally test this.
- robin_reala 9y agoI don’t think that’s true with Google Analytics: the ToS there already prohibits you from storing personal data in it, so there are theoretically no GDPR implications if you’re doing it properly (e.g. /edit-account rather than /[username]/edit-account)