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Old 04-13-2018, 07:41 AM
 
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Default Re: Gdpr - upcoming law for European merchants

Google, XYZ, ABC inc, that has an actual presence in Europe will not be able to opt out because, well, they're in Europe and thus have to. I can't see Google bailing out of Europe.

A small non-Europe based internet shop that has no presence whatsoever in the EU, who's owner is not a EU citizen, and happens to have Europeans visiting their sites online and making purchases cannot be forced to comply with the laws of some foreign land just because it's rulers dictate so - it doesn't work like that.

It's possible they might coerce the payment processing systems to force their customers to comply. Kind of like how the US government forces foreign banks to turn over all tax info about it's US customers abroad. Until it gets to that point, I won't really be going out of my way to comply with this thing.
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