Re:Facebook ordered to delete illegally collected data by Be...
by vkou on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:28PM
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> For example, an EU resident hits your server while they're on vacation in Australia. You've stored analytics, IP addresses, etc. Congrats, you're now in violation.
If you don't do business in the EU (Take money from EU customers), there's practically nothing that the EU can do to you.
> That's the tip of the iceberg.
This is a very unimpressive iceberg.
> The law also broadly contradicts loads of other laws about how data must be retained for legal and compliance purposes. So now that everyone is breaking this law, regulators are free to just decide who they want to punish and how much. That's incredibly damaging to the fundamental idea of the rule of law.
Fortunately, we have something called 'the courts' that will iron out these ambiguities. And as other posters indicate, this is actually addressed by the GDPR.
If you don't do business in the EU (Take money from EU customers), there's practically nothing that the EU can do to you.
> That's the tip of the iceberg.
This is a very unimpressive iceberg.
> The law also broadly contradicts loads of other laws about how data must be retained for legal and compliance purposes. So now that everyone is breaking this law, regulators are free to just decide who they want to punish and how much. That's incredibly damaging to the fundamental idea of the rule of law.
Fortunately, we have something called 'the courts' that will iron out these ambiguities. And as other posters indicate, this is actually addressed by the GDPR.