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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by snowwolf on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:40AM (#16876793)
> Since the Ireland office is in the EU, it is subject to the GDPR. So that means that everybody outside of the US will be covered by the GDPR

Can someone explain this as my understanding is that only EU residents are covered by GDPR. So EU based companies do not have to comply with GDPR for non EU residents.

So this change to the user terms seems to me to have nothing to do with GDPR. The EU privacy law cannot be applied to non EU residents.

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Re:Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU priv... by trampypizza on Thursday April 19, 2018 @11:44AM (#16876837)
You must abide by GDPR if your organisation is based in the EEA [1].

Edit: Is further backed up by Recital 22 [2].

[1] https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/who-must-comply/ [2] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-22/

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