I can’t wait for the day the EU actually tries to enforce their laws on individuals and companies with no presence there. Will be a fun extradition battle to watch
No EU country would ever try to extradite anyone over a GDPR violation...
International companies that choose to process data from EU citizens but blatantly ignore the regulation will be subject to enforcement action from the country's supervisory authority. The supervisory authority has the power to "order the suspension of data flows to a recipient in a third country or to an international organisation" or "to impose a temporary or definitive limitation including a ban on processing".
In practice, this means you can say goodbye to doing business with your EU customers if you don't want to play by the rules. I doubt it'll be much of a loss for them to lose access to services provided by a company that doesn't care about their customers' privacy.
As ever, a significant minority of Americans on Hacker News really Just Do Not Grasp the benefit of the EU or its regulations such as GDPR. "All regulation must be bad!!" It's quite tiresome, really.
> As ever, a significant minority of Americans on Hacker News really Just Do Not Grasp the benefit of the EU or its regulations such as GDPR. "All regulation must be bad!!" It's quite tiresome, really.
Now you know how we feel when Europeans pontificate about issues in the US without really knowing anything beyond the headline.
Also, FWIW a lot of HN participants are in California, which has CCPA. Your stats may well be objectively wrong anyway.
lol768|3 years ago
International companies that choose to process data from EU citizens but blatantly ignore the regulation will be subject to enforcement action from the country's supervisory authority. The supervisory authority has the power to "order the suspension of data flows to a recipient in a third country or to an international organisation" or "to impose a temporary or definitive limitation including a ban on processing".
In practice, this means you can say goodbye to doing business with your EU customers if you don't want to play by the rules. I doubt it'll be much of a loss for them to lose access to services provided by a company that doesn't care about their customers' privacy.
As ever, a significant minority of Americans on Hacker News really Just Do Not Grasp the benefit of the EU or its regulations such as GDPR. "All regulation must be bad!!" It's quite tiresome, really.
rootusrootus|3 years ago
Now you know how we feel when Europeans pontificate about issues in the US without really knowing anything beyond the headline.
Also, FWIW a lot of HN participants are in California, which has CCPA. Your stats may well be objectively wrong anyway.
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