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Yes it does, EU considers GDPR to apply internationally and "European user" is defined in such a way that it includes people physically outside the EU.
by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes it does, EU considers GDPR to apply internationally and "European user" is defined in such a way that it includes people physically outside the EU.
- hnbad 3y agoLast I checked the GDPR applies to EU residents, not EU citizens. In other words: it applies to anyone in Europe, not anyone from Europe. The legal problem with geo-blocking to work around the GDPR is that the error page is usually not GDPR-compliant either. That said for most US sites which apply geo-blocking this is very much a "we'd rather lose that part of the audience than respect anyone's rights" kind of deal. You can roll out the GDPR-compliant treatment for your US users too and it'll be to their benefit. It just means your broken business model that relies on abusing your users' privacy might no longer work. Note that there are EU sites that do force tracking ads on their users while still being GDPR-compliant by only doing so after the user has consented to it and offering a paid subscription without these ads as an alternative. So it's not just "but we need ads" but explicitly "but we want to harvest your data and do who knows what with it".
- 6031769 3y agoThe EU can consider whatever they like but it does not affect the fact that their jurisdiction ends at the border.