Does the GDPR apply to companies outside of the EU?

Re:Does the GDPR apply to companies outside of the EU? by mr-wendel on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:01PM (#27398450)

There is a massive difference. A proper analog is stating that "web requests you make will be logged". If you don't want to be recorded as having walked in, don't walk in.

To make this a fair comparison, the sign would say:

  If you enter this building, you accept that you are being:

  - filmed
  - probed for all wifi and electrical emissions
  - weighed
  - measured
  - secretively (as much as can be managed) pinned with tracking beacons
  - lured into unknowingly entering other buildings w/o realizing it
  - fingerprinted by any surfaces you touch
  - associated with the means of transportation to arrive/depart
  - and on and on and on

Since people can just wear masks, electro-blocking hazmat suits, high heels, a fresh change of cloths for every outing and come equipped with high-resolution GPS and building blueprints... it's a perfectly reasonable assumption.

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Re:Does the GDPR apply to companies outside of the EU? by iso1631 on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:00PM (#27399022)

You forgot gait analysis [0] so remember to put a stone in your shoe.

What amazes me is how many people were worried about the distopian future of minority report [1] 20 years ago, yet (especially on HN) now it's here they welcome it. I guess Upton Sinclair was right: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

[0] https://blog.ansi.org/2018/05/gait-analysis-walk-biometric-i...

[1] https://medium.com/context/personalized-advertising-is-an-ox...

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