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77pt77 on March 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU GDPR – Another reason for SaaS to reconsider on...

> If an EU citizen is in the US, the GDPR doesn't apply.

Wrong. If a resident in a EU country is temporarily in the US, GDPR does apply.

icebraining on March 28, 2018 [–]

Can you give a citation for that? It goes against everything I've been reading.

The text of the GDPR says: "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union", not to all EU citizens.

77pt77 on March 31, 2018 | [–]

Try digging through this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16479079

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