Re:Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
by jimbobthrowawy on Sunday May 19, 2024 @11:26AM
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> Essentially GDPR has become a de facto global law at this point.
This is called the "Brussels Effect" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect ) and much like the California Effect, leads to most everything being made to the more stringent standard because the market requiring it is so big.
Same reason most of your electronics are RoHS2 too.
Countries with similar laws: Isreal, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, and more.
Though it would be wise for countries to also implement these laws. For example, companies could ignore your data deletion request if you were in a state without.
At this point the GDPR is something you have to consider whether you’re in the EU or not because several non EU countries have similar laws and many more are thinking of implementing them, and to the extent many haven’t already it’s because it’s unnecessary since tech companies are following GDPR already.
Essentially GDPR has become a de facto global law at this point.
It wouldn’t be surprising if the same would also be true of other legislation coming out of the EU considering that most tech products are global.