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Re:Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is by briandear on Sunday April 08, 2018 @05:38PM (#16788584)
European languages? That’s absurd. Your product could be targeting US Spanish speakers, African speakers of French or newly arrived German speaking US citizens. Using language as a determinant is without any legal basis. Having your website in French doesn’t mean you are selling to French citizens. Language doesn’t equal location. Language does not impart jurisdiction.

If a small hotel in California had a French language information page, that doesn’t make that hotel subject to an EU law. If I am wrong, then where is the case law? Where is the legal precedent?

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Re:Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is by dahauns on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:28PM (#16789369)
Targeted Language by itself certainly won't be enough, but it is definitely seen as one indicator by the CJEU.

https://iapp.org/news/a/what-does-territorial-scope-mean-und...

(And - case law? Not really a thing in most countries executing the GDPR.)

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