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The question isn't one of citizenship or abstract identity. The question is "Which laws will the content you are served be subject to?". If you don't want to
by ajross 4y ago
The question isn't one of citizenship or abstract identity. The question is "Which laws will the content you are served be subject to?". If you don't want to be subject to Spanish law, get out of Spain.
- cft 4y agoSo why do they wait 6 months and not change immediately when you get off the plane and use your android phone? And then back? When i get back to the US, i will have Spanish Google accounts for at least 6 (or 12?) months, while using them from my own house.
- ajross 4y agoTo prevent trivial exploits using VPNs, probably. Look, the problem here is that internet providers are trying to follow the law ("avoid fines" if you prefer the cynical framing). The law is different in EU countries than it is in the USA, in some very important ways. And they need to be seen making a good faith effort to enforce those laws. A six month grace period for an account "primarily used" in one regime seems not terribly unreasonable to me. But that's not what your original comment was asking for anyway. You wanted to be sitting in Barcelona or wherever and e.g. not be subject to the GDPR and EU-specific data retention requirements (which is presumably the issue here: Bard likely isn't yet compliant being probably all hosted in the USA).
- sebzim4500 4y agoBut it's not 'get out of spain'. It's 'get out of spain and wait 6 months for Google to decide you are no longer spanish'.