[newscracker]

I've asked about this before in another thread but didn't get anything useful for me. How can I get the benefit of being a EU resident, with respect to GDPR, while not physically being in the EU? What I'm asking for may probably sound like a fraudulent thing, but I value my privacy a lot, and if there are any steps I can consider to make myself come under GDPR (without moving to the EU), I'd like to know.

[twiss]

Using a VPN to connect to a location in Europe might work, if the company uses IP address to check whether a user is in the EU.

Of course, Facebook has other options (many users just tell them where they live, you can even fill out an address) so you could try claiming to live in the EU there, too.

[Xylakant]

> many users just tell them where they live, you can even fill out an address

That won't be sufficient. If you're living in Antarctica and are on a summer holidays on an austrian glacier, you're covered by the GDPR.