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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by buzer on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:40AM (#33641471)
No. GDPR isn't tied to citizenship. EU citizens & residents are not covered by GDPR when they are outside of EU unless member state's law applies by virtue of public international law (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/).

A bit more unclear situation is if non-resident is visiting EU and uses services from their home country.

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Re:Discord Inc. fined 800 000 euros by the CNIL, GDPR regula... by blibble on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:16PM (#33642178)
like most EU law it's badly written, but it states "to such data subjects in the Union"

given "within the Union" is used separately in the next sub-article to mean physically located within, it's arguable that "in the Union" could mean citizen of

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