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by joshuamorton 2978 days ago
>Oh, sounds scary. The latter part is clarified [2]:

And according to that clarification, having paypal as a payment processor might make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the union. That's what I said. Or it might not. Its not fully defined. A cautious interpretation makes sense.

>There are no "EU cops" waiting at the airport. Please.

And to be clear, I never said there were. I was making the point that, contrary to g-g-great-grandparent, it is absolutely possible for a country to exert control over the actions of people outside its borders, assuming those people might have interest in international travel.

If you're going to keep yelling FUD about things, you should first confine yourself to calling out things people are actually saying, instead of creating ridiculous strawpeople. Its not productive to call people out for saying ridiculous things that they didn't actually say.
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dnomad 2978 days ago
> And according to that clarification, having paypal as a payment processor might make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the union. That's what I said. Or it might not. Its not fully defined

This is not true. Using a payment processor or accepting credit cards in no way constitutes targeting of EU customers. In that scenario you are neither data controller nor processor, in fact. I think, like a lot of posters in this thread, you've spent virtually zero time understanding the law and are just echoing FUD.

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joshuamorton 2978 days ago
And it's very courageous of you that you're willing to risk other people's money to that effect :)

It's quite odd that you're calling a statement that amounts to "in the presence of untested law, caution is warranted" FUD.

That's like not even controversial. You're entire argument is predicated on you understanding the law better than everyone else. And well, I'm not particularly confident in a person whose most used word is "FUD" and who began a conversation by misunderstanding what I was saying. What reason do I have believe you?

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