Or the US. The US enforces GDPR on behalf of the EU. If the US catches you with misusing EU citizens’ data, they will let the EU take 10 million off your accounts and/or close your instance.
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Marsupial@quokk.au 2 months agoIf an entity isn’t in Europe it shouldn’t be a problem at all.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That depends and should depend on what the instance is used for and whom it is used for.
Marsupial@quokk.au 2 months ago
If it’s an instance open to anyone, it’s up to Europeans to not participate if they don’t want to.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah unfortunately that’s not how the law works.
Marsupial@quokk.au 2 months ago
Actually it is :)
gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/#:~:text=The …