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For better or worse, that’s exactly what’s going to happen mostly. And as a non EU European citizen, thank you for saying « Europeans » and not « EU Citizens »
by fetzu 2y ago
For better or worse, that’s exactly what’s going to happen mostly.
And as a non EU European citizen, thank you for saying « Europeans » and not « EU Citizens »! We get most of the downsides, but none of the upsides..
- oytis 2y agoThis regulation shouldn't affect you if you are not in the EU though
- fetzu 2y agoI unfortunately live in a small and « complicated » (3 languages for less than 9 million inhabitants) country landlocked in the EU. So in theory I shouldn’t be affected, but in reality either companies don’t care enough to make the distinction, or the EU ends up strong arming my government into adopting their regulation.
- mike_hearn 2y agoYes for those of us who live in Switzerland it is quite annoying to be conflated with the EU and then be blocked from stuff for no reason. For anyone reading this who gets assigned to work on compliance blocking, please remember at all times that there are quite a few countries in Europe that are not EU members - and often it's because of the EU's heavy handed approach to things, as visible here!
- max_ 2y agoWhat if you have a software product you are selling to EU citizens?
- drtgh 2y agoTo avoid the recent fashion of using people as guinea pigs for alpha and beta versions of immature products if they endanger lives, for example. To avoid deploy subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques, with the objective, or the effect of materially distorting the behavior of a person. And so on.