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If the EU is willing to hold you financially liable for something you provided for free with no promise of it functioning or being safe to use, might they also
by SkyBelow 4y ago
If the EU is willing to hold you financially liable for something you provided for free with no promise of it functioning or being safe to use, might they also hold you financially liable even though you said it shouldn't be used by anyone in the EU?
- FredPret 4y agoMaybe the safest approach is to firewall them off of the internet. They can have their own bureaucratic paradise without involving the rest of us in their mad schemes.
- sclarisse 4y agoI mean, the newspapers already do that with the GDPR regulations, so it may be inevitable
- FredPret 4y agoPersonally I modified my (paid service) project's EULA to make it unavailable to EU residents, citizens, and people currently located there just to be safe. First it was fonts and cookies, now this; I don't want to see where this jaw-dropping progression ends up. In 2016 I thought Britain was absolutely mad, but they're starting to look smarter and smarter
- cronix 4y agoI wonder how much collective time the world would save not having to click on cookie permissions every time they visit a website.
- jart 4y agoMaxMind has a free utility called GeoIpLite that has an explicit field which tells you if an IP address should be considered part of the EU.
- renewiltord 4y agoI suppose you could write into your license that EU users have a licensing fee of $x where $x is large enough to capture your lawsuit risk.