• neanderthal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t they have to have some sort of presence in the EU? If all of their operations are US based (I don’t know if they are or not), can the EU really do anything about it?

    • Aer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They serve people in the EU so they absolutely have to comply. If you have EU citizens on your website then EU GDPR regulations apply to you.

      I have done enough GDPR compliance training to make me want to gouge my own brain out but I guess it came in handy lol

            • mod@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Matching you IP to your country and showing you an excuse if GDPR would apply. Some American news outlets do it this way.

            • Aer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              All governments have the power to block a website, there have been sites blocked by the government such as pirate bay and MEGA upload. It isn’t outside the possibility they can get blocked at an ISP level or beyond that.

              They can even contact the website host which most companies will use Amazon services and they will definitely comply with EU regulations