Re:OnePlus Is Again Sending User Data to a Chinese Company W...
by reaperducer on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:19PM
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>The GDPR applies extraterritorially.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
It'll work for the big, entrenched companies like Facebook who couldn't bear to be without its UK customers, for example. But I don't see the EU successfully going after every little dot-com startup from Alabama to Angola, many of them in jurisdictions that barely have a functioning legal system, let alone respect for EU law.
If such extraterritorial enforcement was actually possible, there would be no 419 scammers.
Yeah. Good luck with that.
It'll work for the big, entrenched companies like Facebook who couldn't bear to be without its UK customers, for example. But I don't see the EU successfully going after every little dot-com startup from Alabama to Angola, many of them in jurisdictions that barely have a functioning legal system, let alone respect for EU law.
If such extraterritorial enforcement was actually possible, there would be no 419 scammers.