Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Many states in the US have similar regulations. For example, California’s regulations are famously similar to GDPR.

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What other states other than California has it?

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    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      iapp.org/…/us-state-privacy-legislation-tracker/

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      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for the source.

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• brot@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you think about it: The GDPR applies to all data of EU citizens regardless of where they are or where you are. There is no way that this app is not having some EU guy in New York in it and therefore totally in violation of GDPR

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  • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No European law applies outside Europe. That’s kind of the nature of laws.

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    • brot@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Other users have written about GDPR, but just FYI: There are a lot of laws that apply worldwide. You might not like it, but states really do have laws in place that they are applying to everybody in the world. Thailand has draconian laws about insulting their king and they totally do not care if you insulted him inside or outside of the country. They can’t arrest you whereever you are, but if you ever try to visit Thailand, you will get arrested. And many countries also have laws in place about stuff that their citizen do outside of the country.

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      • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

        They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can’t apply it to me until then.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the big part of what makes GDPR so wide-reaching and impactful. It protects European residents, not European IP addresses. If you’re a resident of Europe, you’re covered under GDPR. Even if you’re visiting the US. That’s why even Americans get GDPR questions when visiting sites, because the site can’t just filter by IP location to determine whether or not you need to be shown the GDPR prompt.

      Enforcement can be trickier, sure. But to be clear, GDPR does cover non-European companies as long as they’re interacting with a European resident.

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    • hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wrong. US citizen while in EU falls under GDPR. EU citizen while anywhere outside of EU falls under GDPR.

      It is up to EU to enforce it.

      That’s kind of the nature of laws.

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      • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

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  • homura1650@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And what is the EU going to do about it? Governing bodies can declare extraterritorial laws all they want, but they are meaningless unless they have a way to enforce them.

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  • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The treaties and international laws between these countries absolutely allow the EU to enforce GDPR against companies and individuals outside of the EU if it involves an EU citizen as the victim. I know this because I have to work with it every day and I’m from the US.

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• zarathustra0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I imagine there are whatsapp groups for things like this.

  But I’m going to pretend they don’t exist because I already feel self-conscious enough.

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