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This is a bit pedantic, but I'll make my point anyway: whether a law can apply to you is orthogonal to whether it can be enforced on you. The GDPR is very clear about its application, and it is explicitly extraterritorial [1]. Of course, it does have secondary provisions about company size and non-commercial activity (mainly recitals [13] and [18]) which limits its applicability, but from a legal definition point of view, "I don't live in the EU so the GDPR does not apply to me" is too simplistic.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

[13] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-13/

[18] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-18/



Trinidad and Tobago might as well threaten the world as well with some weird clause. Fact is that EU GDPR has zero application here in the states.




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