Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by cortesoft on Saturday February 27, 2021 @05:25PM (#26288737)

I am not sure what you are trying to argue here. I am not making any moral claim about whether a GDPR-type regulation is good or bad. I am simply saying that the EU saying the law applies outside their borders doesn’t make it so.

If I am a US citizen living and working in the US, and break the GDPR by storing data illegally from visitors to my website from the EU, the EU can certainly try to fine me or issue a summons or whatever they want to do.

However, there exists no extradition treaty for this law, and there would be no way for the EU to enforce judgement.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:28PM (#26290431)

Yeah, this is the really frustrating thing about conversations about the GDPR: whatever you think about how companies should act, legislation doesn’t really matter unless there’s some way the government can take retributive action against those who ignore it. When someone asks about what this mechanism is, you inevitably get a whole host of people assuming you dislike the legislation.

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