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Cutting access in Europe does not solve anything. I'm living in US but I am European. Thus I can visit any of the above listed website they are processing my da
by carreau 8y ago
Cutting access in Europe does not solve anything. I'm living in US but I am European. Thus I can visit any of the above listed website they are processing my data, and GDPR applies to me. So they are not complying and I could file a complaint.
- denzil_correa 8y agoPersonally, this is the fun part of GDPR for me. The days of weasling out of regulations for private data with cute workarounds are coming to an end.
- stale2002 8y agoHow in the heck is "blocking all European users" a cute work around? The laws apply to European people. What if a site just doesn't want any of these people to be customers? The EU can't force you to accept it's users. If anything, the business should sue the EU customers who accessed their website without permission. You are breaking the rules as a EU citzens by doing so.
- twanvl 8y ago> Thus I can visit any of the above listed website they are processing my data, and GDPR applies to me. "Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR." (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/application-regulation/who-does-data-protection-law-apply_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...)
- Kiro 8y agoYou are wrong and spreading disinformation.
- amarkov 8y agoFile a complaint with who? There's no EU-wide data privacy regulator. Which specific EU country would have jurisdiction over an interaction which took place in the US?
- hk__2 8y ago> Which specific EU country would have jurisdiction over an interaction which took place in the US? OP’s country. The "place" that interaction took place in is irrelevant here, unless the company "doesn’t specifically target its services at individuals in the EU"; OP is citizen of an EU country so the GDPR rules apply. (edit: rephrasing)
- amarkov 8y agoThat's not how jurisdiction normally works. A French citizen working within the US for a US company can't demand that they follow French employment regulations.
- vidarh 8y agoThat depends entirely on how the lawmakers in question decide to act. Many countries claim jurisdiction over certain types of events occurring outside their own borders. E.g Belgium claims jurisdiction over human rights violations. Norway and many others claim worldwide jurisdiction over sexual abuse of children. The US claims jurisdictions to tax US citizens worldwide. The question tends to rather be whether or not they are able to enforce them, and so normally in such cases the practice is to only prosecute if the people involved are within your own borders. Your example is flawed in that most countries that use these kind of mechanisms will tend to either require a extraterritorial jurisdiction to be written into the law, or will assume that only certain classes of crimes transcend jurisdictions. E.g. in the case of Norway, Norway has traditionally claimed extraterritorial jurisdiction over Norwegian citizens, but with the practice that things that are legal in the country you are in are generally not possible to prosecute in Norway unless there is a law that specifically claims extraterritorial jurisdiction (sexual abuse of children being one such example, where Norway may prosecute people who return from countries with weak or non-existent protection of children younger than the Norwegian age of consent). In other words: It's how jurisdiction works if your courts wants it to work that way.
- Spivak 8y agoFrance could absolutely pass such a law, companies would either have to comply or stop doing business in France.
- celticninja 8y agoNo that's not correct. GDPR applies if you are in Europe. So a US citizen in Poland is protected but a Polish citizen living in the US is not.