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by ocdtrekkie 3064 days ago
It's unlikely foreign sites catered to foreign viewers would be impacted. When I buy something from a site that only sells in another country's currency, I know I'm probably going outside my own nation's protections a bit.

But if you're a company specifically soliciting EU customers, and especially if you have a presence in the EU physically, expect to have issues if you're collecting data on them without consent.

Bear in mind, the US will extradite people for committing crimes against US entities who live fully within other countries. Presumably if the act is bad enough... that sort of thing starts to play in. (Seriously, if the EU tried to extradite Sundar Pichai... that'd be something, wouldn't it?) The crime has to be befitting such effort though. One EU citizen's data sweeped up in your Google Analytics data does not make you worthy of a legal case. Do it several million times... maybe.

tl;dr: If you're an average company not operating in or marketing to the EU, this doesn't affect you. If you're the size it's likely to be an issue for you, you're likely big enough to handle the additional requirements and do fine.

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Extradition typically only applies to things which are crimes in both jurisdictions. Since these things aren't crimes in the US extradition is very unlikely.