[chasb]

(Just a heads up "Ask HN" generally refers to asking the community, not YC itself. I don't think the YC legal team reads this.)

I'm a lawyer, YC alum, and have a CIPP/E cert. I took a crack at the "Does GDPR apply to HN?" question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615351

The answer is "probably not" because HN is neither established in the EU nor do they target the EU specifically. Maybe there are facts I don't know, but YC itself is also probably out of scope (read more here: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/)

I'm also CEO of Aptible. We make a SaaS platform (Gridiron) that a bunch of YC companies are using for GDPR prep.

[rdlecler1]

It seems that it didn’t have to be targeting specifically.... given what I’ve read I still think that insofar as they’re investing in European companies and have European LPs, then they’d be exposed.