Re:Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is...
by kwhitefoot on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:03AM
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Generally only for their own citizens. This covers, for instance, cases of sex tourism.
Re:Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is...
by germanier on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @05:19AM
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The German criminal law explicitly covers e.g. all cases of money counterfeiting, human trafficking, and war crimes worldwide regardless of nationality. They have given themselves some binding restrictions on what cases should be prosecuted. Of course enforcement is usually hard to impossible so it does not get used often. But just as an example, a German court has sentenced an Rwandan FDLR president for assisting war crimes even though there is absolutely no connection to Germany.
Germany is not alone in claiming universal jurisdiction for certain crimes.
Re:Court Rules That EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month Post Is...
by zaarn on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:47AM
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The EU GDPR regulation applies to people interacting with citizens of the EU, not only EU citizens.
Law can certainly apply to foreign legal entities as defined by the local legislation if the legal code permits such.
Some countries do claim jurisdiction outside their own borders for certain types of cases.