> The issue is if a person visits a resource from a company in the EU
Does it have to be a company in the EU? I thought the GDPR covered any website an EU citizen, resident, or visitor might use, in which case US-based websites might have contradictory obligations to the GDPR and US law.
Is that not what 2(a) says- if a service is being provided to an EU data subject, that the regulation applies? At least, that is clearly what the EU seems to be claiming? Sure, if no EU data subject actually accesses the site, it doesn't apply, but the moment one does...
Well I mean think of a store which doesn't accept EU payment or ship to EU addresses, nor target EU residents with Advertising. You'd be hard pressed to say they service EU residents even if the site was able to be visited by EU residents.