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Re:How will the GDPR impact machine learning? by ryanwaggoner on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:20AM (#17142633)
If you have a legal or business presence in the EU, you will be affected, because that puts you inside the EU jurisdiction.

If only this were true. Under the GDPR, an EU resident sending their info to me anywhere else in the world apparently constitutes me doing business in the EU in their eyes. That’s their claim of global jurisdiction.

Fortunately, they can’t actually enforce this, so I’ll be ignoring it, just like I would for Saudi Arabian anti-blasphemy laws.

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Re:How will the GDPR impact machine learning? by henrikschroder on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:38PM (#17148185)
> Fortunately, they can’t actually enforce this, so I’ll be ignoring it, just like I would for Saudi Arabian anti-blasphemy laws.

Yes! That is exactly the right position to take as a US company!

Anyone claiming differently is most probably peddling snake-oil in the form of "GDPR compliance".

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