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America set the precedent with arresting foreign nationals for breaching US laws while on foreign territory with Dmitry Sklyarov

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > America set the precedent with arresting foreign nationals for breaching US laws while on foreign territory with Dmitry Sklyarov It set the precedent for arresting foreign national for breaching US laws while on foreign territory considerably before Sklyarov's arrest in 2001; some notable prior examples include Humberto Alvarez Machain (1985) and Manuel Noriega (1989), though they weren't the earliest, either. Insofar as Sklyarov's case was notable, it was more because the charged offenses were completely legal where they occurred, not because they were allegedly committed by a foreign national outside of the US.
  • isostatic 8y ago
    In which case Americans who haven't broken American law by ignoring GDPR requests from their EU clients should not be surprised if they are arrested if they ever go to Europe.
    • dragonwriter 8y ago
      AFAIK, GDPR is a regulation with civil financial penalties, and not a criminal law, so, yes, anyone should be surprised if they are arrested for violating it.
      • isostatic 8y ago
        If you don't pay those penalties though then you'd be in trouble