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tajen on July 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People

GDPR applies if you are a European citizen visiting a website while on holiday in USA, for example. It doesn’t seem to me that GDPR stops when crossing a border. Which is why it has so much worldwide reach.

kasey_junk on July 7, 2018 [–]

That is not a commonly held interpretation of the law, especially if the entities collecting & processing the data are not in the EU.

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