Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe

Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by hellofunk on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:24PM (#17197580)

I think you are talking about the reverse -- how can FB know you are just an American visiting Europe vs. one actually living there? Because in the latter case, you are covered under GDPR but I don't think you are under the first one.

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Re:Ask HN: Delete a U.S. FB Account While in Europe by jackgolding on Thursday May 31, 2018 @12:55PM (#17197907)

GDPR covers EU residents so you don't need to be a citizen (i.e. you could travel to EU and delete all your data) - see chapter 1 "your company is established outside the EU but offers goods or services to, or monitors the behaviour of, individuals within the EU."

EDIT: reading a bit more seems that some companies think that its only when a data subject has data processed within the EU (i.e. they data subject is in the EU) or the data processing is done in the EU.

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