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0 pointsoutside12348y ago0 comments

On the contrary, if you are running a business where 99% of your customers are outside of the EU, its totally rational versus opening yourself up to massive liability.

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orf8y ago· 4 in thread

You need to purge that 1% customer data though. If you're accepting EU citizens data through any channel - another business, them using a VPN, via smoke signals, you need to comply.

dazilcher8y ago

Yeah, no, please stop this FUD.

You need to comply with the laws of the jurisdiction you operate in. If you don't operate in the EU (and having a presence on a global communication network does not qualify), EU laws are not applicable.

The onus is on concerned EU citizens to stick to .eu domains with a feel-good GDPR-VERIFIED banner if they are so inclined, not on the rest of the world to bend over.

As a non-EU business, I will pay my GDPR "fines" right after I'm done paying my Iran and North Korea issued fines. Cheers!

orf8y ago

This, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly why the GDPR is needed.

outside1234OP8y ago

If it is while the customer is in the EU.

If the customer joins your Japanese site while in Japan, its governed under Japanese law, not EU law. Your citizenship is irrelevant.

freedomben8y ago

Do you have a source for this? Would love for this to be true but there's so much disinformation out there.

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