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All 28 countries also have different privacy laws, consumer-protection laws, trademark laws (to some extent), language laws, etc. How much is that costing you?

• downandout 8y ago
  The new issue is the extent of the extraterritorial reach that was built into this law. With GDPR, the EU is essentially making the claim that it can dictate rules to and reach into the pockets of any company anywhere in the world, whether or not they have a presence in the EU.
  • gerdesj 8y ago
    You're not from 'round here are you? GDPR is internally consistent and designed from the ground up to protect individuals like you and I from the sort of companies that I at least do run and I have no idea what you do. There is no extraterritorial reach at all. If you want to deal with Europeans then you should respect their laws. In the same way I would not dream of abusing your rights, according to those laws that your legislature have granted you (within reason). In a way you might describe GDPR as a form of politeness and I'm sure we are all in favour of that. (No lawyers needed)
    • downandout 8y ago
      There is no extraterritorial reach at all You clearly have no idea what you're talking about here.
      • dang 8y ago
        Can you please not post this kind of thing to HN? You veered into being uncivil/unsubstantive several times in this thread. Besides being against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), it undermines your argument.
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