Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by guitarbill on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:48AM
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Pretty sure there is an extradition treaty [0], which the US makes use of to e.g. try and get British hackers extradited [1]. Such requests can be blocked (also [1]).
[0] http://ec.europa.eu/world/agreements/prepareCreateTreatiesWo...
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by tripletao on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:12AM
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Yeah, but extradition treaties generally require "dual criminality", that the offense be a crime in both countries. If your offense wasn't a crime in the USA, then you probably won't get extradited; and if it was, then the USA probably has jurisdiction too (assuming you were physically here when you did it), so the USA can prosecute you itself.
Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by guitarbill on Monday April 30, 2018 @04:47AM
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The link to Mr. Love's case, or Mr. Dotcom's ongoing case clearly show being "physically here" didn't seem to factor into those requests.
An EU government could try to convince your own government to enforce their fine / injunction / extradition / whatever. I don't think the USA has any treaty or other law that would compel them to. I'd guess that Trump's administration would treat the request as something between a joke and an attack on American sovereignty, so I doubt that's a major risk here. Other countries may vary.
The easiest path for the EU to enforce is probably through your customers and vendors, probably starting with payment processors--like, require everyone who processes payments in the EU to transact only with people who transact only with GDPR-compliant companies. My personal guess is that everyone with a business model that depends on breaking the GDPR will move offshore, and the EU will play the same game of merchant account whack-a-mole that the USA does for online poker and such. I'd guess that the effort to enforce offshore will be big enough that only the most egregious violators will be worth the attention.