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But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point
by developer93 5y ago
But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point
- compiler-guy 5y agoIf the company has you down in country A, then they apply the rules for country A. But there are many signs they use to determine what country you are actually in. Apparently there were enough signs in this case to conclude he had been in Malaysia long enough to trigger the rule.
- jmholla 5y agoThere were also enough signs for them to identify Dan Schroeder being from Thailand despite the fact he hasn't been there or out of his country of residence for two years.
- compiler-guy 5y agoThe argument isn't that the system is perfect. It likely just needs to be good enough. A false positive in attempting to comply with the law really isn't a reason to not try at all.
- jmholla 5y agoThen there needs to be an actually working avenue to correct these issues. the rsponse, the system isn't perfect so, sorry, tough luck, is a worse argument in my opinion. In this case Schroeder's valid appeal was denied, which was my point.
- jfrunyon 5y ago> But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point Not really. If you take Google to court, and Google tells the judge "yo, he was connecting from a Malaysian ISP for like 2 years straight", the judge is probably gonna say "okay, yeah, I can see why you thought he was a resident of Malaysia".