[ivan_gammel]

It’s like drug cartels relocating from Mexico: noone will feel sorry.

[rvnx]

I don't see Google or Facebook relocating to Mexico soon. They don't have to, when they finance politicians

[koheripbal]

They would be relocating their corporation only - they'd still be operating in the EU on EU customers.

[fnordian_slip]

In that case they would still be subject to the GDPR.

[koheripbal]

...yet since it's unenforceable, then they probably don't care.

[gruez]

Why not? If they have offices in EU, raid them. If they have customers in the EU, freeze their bank accounts or sanction their payment processors.

[koheripbal]

> If they have offices in EU, raid them.

They won't - that's what relocation means.

> If they have customers in the EU, freeze their bank accounts or sanction their payment processors.

This is comical. The government isn't going to start shutting bank accounts for GDPR violations on small foreign corporations, as if they're smuggling nuclear fuel to Iran. Half the bank accounts in the world would be closed if we were so sensitive to regulations.