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It applies in EU and your site will/may be blocked in EU if you ignore it. So EU is free to block a site, which is both its right and responsibility, since it’s
by wruza 2y ago
It applies in EU and your site will/may be blocked in EU if you ignore it. So EU is free to block a site, which is both its right and responsibility, since it’s EU’s idea. Sites self-censoring for EU is just a friendly compliment, not a world-wide obligation.
There’s no law (of this level) that could force someone around the globe to do something for someone else. You can only make a public contract like “you do X here or we block you in here and that’s all we can do unless you come here”. It doesn’t work like “all of you over there must do X now”.
- solardev 2y agoThe EU GDPR website has this to say: https://gdpr.eu/compliance-checklist-us-companies/ https://gdpr.eu/compliance-checklist-us-companies/ > You may be wondering how the European Union will enforce a law in territory it does not control. The fact is, foreign governments help other countries enforce their laws through mutual assistance treaties and other mechanisms all the time. GDPR Article 50 addresses this question directly. So far, the EU’s reach has not been tested, but no doubt data protection authorities are exploring their options on a case-by-case basis. It sounds like a fancy way to say "Yeah, we can't do anything to you NOW, but we're hoping that other countries will listen and help us enforce this via treaty in the future..."
- bigfatkitten 2y agoIt's a completely empty threat unless you happen to have a presence in a jurisdiction with equivalent offences to those provided by EU privacy legislation. Otherwise, you have about as much to fear from Europe as you have from the Chinese for hosting pictures of Winnie the Pooh.