Re:Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers, or An...
by Silhouette on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:57PM
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No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol.
Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on your business and your market.
We're in the UK. If we'd understood how much trouble the EU VAT rules were going to cause when they came in three years ago, we would have excluded customers from the remaining EU member states rather than adapting our systems and processes to comply -- and it would have been one of the clearest and easiest business decisions we'd ever made.
Given the amount of uncertainty and liability involved with the GDPR, it seems entirely possible that some non-EU services will take a similarly conservative approach.
Maybe, maybe not. It all depends on your business and your market.
We're in the UK. If we'd understood how much trouble the EU VAT rules were going to cause when they came in three years ago, we would have excluded customers from the remaining EU member states rather than adapting our systems and processes to comply -- and it would have been one of the clearest and easiest business decisions we'd ever made.
Given the amount of uncertainty and liability involved with the GDPR, it seems entirely possible that some non-EU services will take a similarly conservative approach.