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> If you're an American company and a single European citizen uses your services you are bound by the GDPR's regulations. That isn’t really true. If you have n
by BillinghamJ 8y ago
> If you're an American company and a single European citizen uses your services you are bound by the GDPR's regulations.
That isn’t really true. If you have no legal presence, no employees, no offices, etc in Europe, enforcement actions cannot be taken against you.
The law may say you’re in scope, but that’s only relevant within areas where EU laws have any weight.
- fwdpropaganda 8y agoPlease read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17058645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17058645 It's not that the law wants to apply to you but it doesn't have weight because they can't enforce anything against you, as is often heard on HN. It's that the law doesn't want to apply to you.