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by notpushkin 627 days ago
Supposedly.

I was an Estonian resident a while ago, and I wanted to delete data in my old VK.com account (a Russian company). They didn’t do anything, naturally, so I wrote to Estonian data protection inspector or something. They said that (surprise!) they can’t do anything either.

Things might be better now, but my bet is if you register a company in, say, Seychelles, and your business is purely digital, you can ignore GDPR all you want.

EU can, in theory, tell payment processors to stop working with you, but I haven’t heard of such cases. Even then it won’t help if you don’t sell anything (apart from user data).

Some EU countries have started blocking websites (by spoofing DNS) – this could actually work to put some actual pressure on non-compliant companies, but also is kinda too authoritarian for EU?

Tl;dr: GDPR has good intentions, it just doesn’t work right now if the data processor is not in EU.