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pc86
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Personal and social information of 1.2B people dis...
A law isn't a law if you can't enforce it, so "applies" has kind of a strange meaning in this context then, doesn't it?
wccrawford
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A law always has a jurisdiction. EU laws generally don't apply to the US, even if the EU wants them to. There are exceptions, of course.
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Theoretically, if it were egregious enough, the EU could say to the owners or management of the company that if they went to the EU they would be arrested. That’s enough of a threat that it might convince them.
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