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by nrabulinski 530 days ago
Then the EU can stop them from selling their products to EU customers, since as soon as you’re providing services to EU customers you’re obliged to play by EU rules
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>Then the EU can stop them from selling their products to EU customers

So you want the EU to play whack-a-mole with fly by night IoT vendors, some of which might be shipping directly from China? Or do you want to fix this with even more regulation, like requiring licenses to import IoT products or whatever?

> So you want the EU to play whack-a-mole with fly by night IoT vendors

Yes

Like they do with other online criminals

Yeah, I'm sure the EU sending angry letters to nameless IoT company in shenzhen is going to be very effective.
> Yeah, I'm sure the EU sending angry letters to nameless IoT company in shenzhen is going to be very effective.

I would expect them to use a heavier hammer to whack that mole....