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by icebraining 3030 days ago
EU citizens outside the EU.

Where is this specified? It's not what I understood from Recital 23†; as far as I can tell, it applies if the business is established in the EU or if the user is in the EU, but not to EU citizens outside the EU (if the business is foreign).

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/

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I read your link, and I think it depends on what "being in" means in the phrase "data subjects who are in the [European] Union". It could refer either to physical location (as in "I am in Germany") or to membership (as in "Germany is in the EU"), or possibly to both. I would also expect it to refer to physical location after reading this, but I'm most definitely not a lawyer.
Germany is not a data subject, so I don't think it can be read that way. Others agree: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-does-apply-eu-citizens-g...