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by vidarh 5336 days ago
> A company is only subject to UK law if it operates from the UK.

That's wrong.

This is the UK's Crown Prosecution Service advice on the matter:

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/jurisdiction/

As you can see, it sets out a long range of situations where UK jurisdiction extends outside the UK, in many cases even if the criminal behavior happened entirely outside of the UK.

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't know all the details and whether or not it'd be likely to be possible to get a court in the UK to accept jurisdiction in a case against Klout, but courts in the UK have a lot of flexibility and the fact that they are in the US by no means automatically means UK courts won't or can't claim jurisdiction.

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Passive personality is particularly interesting.