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The EU was pretty successful with mandating cookie banners and GDPR. On the other hand, I think a great firewall would be useful to the US and especially the E
by aniviacat 1y ago
The EU was pretty successful with mandating cookie banners and GDPR.
On the other hand, I think a great firewall would be useful to the US and especially the EU, to be able to enforce their laws even better.
- tonyhart7 1y ago"mandating cookie banners and GDPR." this is only works if your business located in EU, no one stop EU people visit US site and still get tracked
- bayindirh 1y agoI'm not pretty sure about that. I get cookie banners from US companies all the time and choose to reject them. Just visited www.vmware.com. Site is located in the US. Company is located in USA, and OneTrust's cookie banner welcomed me, and allows me to make choices.
- giingyui 1y agoVMware wants to sell to European clients. If they didn’t they wouldn’t have cookie banners.
- bayindirh 1y agoBasically, if you have any tracking on your site, you either a) Show the cookie banners if somebody is coming from a GPDR or GDPR-compliant country, since it's required by EU law and these GPDR-compliant laws. b) You geofence your site and prevent access. So, in practice regardless you whether sell anything or not, if your site, proverbially, touches European soil, you have to show these choices.
- giingyui 1y agoWhat’s the EU going to do to you if you don’t have operations in the EU?
- fc417fc802 1y agoThat's option c, ignore EU law and forever give up the possibility of doing business there. The larger a company is the less likely it is to find that route palatable.
- giingyui 1y agoWhy would the EU fine you for something you did before you had operations in the EU? I don’t think it works that way.
- aniviacat 1y agoIf you are taking EU citizens' data when they access your website from within the EU, then of course the EU will prosecute you for that. Just like they will prosecute you for scamming EU citizens, for hacking EU citizens, for impersonating EU citizens, and anything else you can do to EU citizens while being located somewhere else.
- fc417fc802 1y agoBecause they explicitly worded the law to threaten exactly that. It's the exact same thing the US does with the financial system. They intentionally claim extraterritorial jurisdiction; it is doubtful you would want to try calling that as a bluff.
- closewith 1y agoIf you market your services to EU residents, the EU will hold you subject to the GDPR (and many other EU Regulations) irrespective of your location.