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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by rowyourboat on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @10:50AM (#16474437)
The comparison to the convenience store fails because in the digital realm, the customer does not need to physically travel outside the EU to do business with somebody outside the EU.

Or, to look at it another way: If it weren't extraterritorial, ad providers (for example) could simply close their local branches, and EU citizens would not be protected from consent-less data gathering. To realistically be able to fulfill its mission, the GDPR _has_ to be global in scope.

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by freeone3000 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:01PM (#16478401)
Why don't ad providers simply close their local branches, stop accepting these tainted Euros, and collect the data anyway? As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there's limited mechanism of enforcement.
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