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Could Americans take advantage of EU protections by using European services?
by handsome-mike 9y ago
Could Americans take advantage of EU protections by using European services?
- some_random 9y agoIt seems to me like Americans might benefit from EU protections in any case, since corporations have to (from my understanding) apply said protections to EU citizens living outside the EU and those using VPNs to connect from outside the EU.
- icebraining 9y agoI don't think the GDPR applies to EU citizens outside the EU; only to people in the EU. Also, the GDPR doesn't necessarily apply to every non-EU site that has EU visitors, only to those who in some way target EU customers (the rules are a bit ambiguous: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/ https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/) So if someone outside the EU wants to benefit from the GDPR, the best way is to use services by EU companies, as those are required to apply it to everyone.
- Sylos 9y agoYes. Every company with legal standing in the EU has to comply with the GDPR, regardless of what data they process. Companies outside of the EU only have to comply with it when they are processing data of EU citizens. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/