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Re:Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store by JustFinishedBSG on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:07AM (#32688463)
This isn't even true. Websites do that to "avoid" GDPR but GDPR very clearly says it applies to EU citizen, not people in the EU, so if you geoblock the EU but still store the data of a EU citizen using a VPN / in vacation you're breaking the law.
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Re:Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store by tzs on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:33AM (#32688661)
> [...] GDPR very clearly says it applies to EU citizen, not people in the EU [...]

What it says is that it applies to data subjects who are "in the Union". The word "citizen" does not appear anywhere in GDPR or in the accompanying recitals.

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