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Imagine your country claiming taxes from you even though you are an ex-patriate and not living in that country. Oh, that does happen. You can't just build a fi
by TomK32 8y ago
Imagine your country claiming taxes from you even though you are an ex-patriate and not living in that country. Oh, that does happen.
You can't just build a firewall for data, especially as users will actually willingly export data.
You look at the GDPR from a business side only and miss that it is about personal data and how that data has become a commodity that is being traded, mishandled and often abused.
So far none of the US-based services that I use has shut down or blocked me just because I'm under the protection of the GDPR. Those websites we see blocking users have either no interest in the European market (fair enough) or are indeed using shady practices.
- zerostar07 8y ago> Oh, that does happen. That's based on international law, while there is no such thing about privacy
- mbroncano 8y agoActually it isn’t, in fact the US is kind of unique in that sense.
- TomK32 8y agoThere's also Eritrea.
- rad_gruchalski 8y agoWow, that makes it two.
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- pacifika 8y agohttps://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 12
- JumpCrisscross 8y agoThe UDHR is "not legally binding" [1]. It was analogous to a House Resolution, i.e. setting out general principles upon which actual law would be negotiated. "International law" most properly refers to ratified treaties, which have the force of law in their applicable jurisdictions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...