4 ms·
It doesn't assert global jurisdiction, what makes you think that? If you have a legal or business presence in the EU, you will be affected, because that puts y
by henrikschroder 8y ago
It doesn't assert global jurisdiction, what makes you think that?
If you have a legal or business presence in the EU, you will be affected, because that puts you inside the EU jurisdiction.
Note that Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/Samsung/etc have a substantial presence in the EU; employees, offices, shops, data-centers, customers, which is why they are affected by the GDPR, and the EU is giving them the choice to either comply, or pull out.
If you have a small business in the US, you can safely ignore the GDPR, because there are no avenues of enforcement against you, because you're not inside the jurisdiction. Non-US companies get sued in US courts all the time, and nothing comes of that either.
> If Saudi Arabia passes anti-blasphemy laws and says they apply globally if a citizen of theirs visits your website, should anyone care?
Everyone doing business with Saudi Arabia should care. Is this not self-evident to you?
- ryanwaggoner 8y agoIf you have a legal or business presence in the EU, you will be affected, because that puts you inside the EU jurisdiction. If only this were true. Under the GDPR, an EU resident sending their info to me anywhere else in the world apparently constitutes me doing business in the EU in their eyes. That’s their claim of global jurisdiction. Fortunately, they can’t actually enforce this, so I’ll be ignoring it, just like I would for Saudi Arabian anti-blasphemy laws.
- henrikschroder 8y ago> Fortunately, they can’t actually enforce this, so I’ll be ignoring it, just like I would for Saudi Arabian anti-blasphemy laws. Yes! That is exactly the right position to take as a US company! Anyone claiming differently is most probably peddling snake-oil in the form of "GDPR compliance".