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Some websites offer a different experience if you access them from an IP address from the EU. So playing Devils advocate, maybe they don't violate GDPR. Edit:
by forgotmyhnacc 7y ago
Some websites offer a different experience if you access them from an IP address from the EU. So playing Devils advocate, maybe they don't violate GDPR.
Edit: curious why I was downvoted, did I say anything wrong or offensive?
- ryandrake 7y agoI thought geo-targeting with IPs wasn’t good enough because GDPR applies to European citizens/users, not just people who happen to be located in a European country.
- dangrossman 7y agoGDPR applies to location, not citizenship. You do not need to ascertain or assume the citizenship of people on your website, only if they're located in the Union. If a German citizen is browsing a US website from a computer in Kentucky, EU law does not apply. See GDPR Article 3 (1), Article 3 (2), and Recital 14.
- briandear 7y agoGDPR does not apply to “European Citizens.” It applies to people in the EU. > This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ Short answer: this applies to people in the EU, citizenship is irrelevant. The law is geographic, not based on passport.
- Kalium 7y agoMore specifically, it applies to companies with a legal presence in the EU dealing with people in the EU. Otherwise, someone might think that being in the EU grants them GDPR rights when dealing with a company in Argentina.
- r3bl 7y agoIt does grant them GDPR rights. If you offer service to people in the EU, you have to comply with the GDPR. If you don't, you don't have to. How and will that be enforced is a different discussion, but the regulation clearly protects people in the EU regardless of where the website owner is located.
- Kalium 7y agoAn unenforceable right is a nonexistant right. GDPR is business regulations, phrased as human rights, and makes the most sense if understood as business regulations. I understand that some might choose to hold different opinions about any or all of this.
- manigandham 7y agoGDPR only applies to geography because there's no possible way to know who a person is online unless they specifically login or tell you, and at that point you already have consent.