The EU might want that, but just today my company collected and passed the personal details of a number of EU citizens to colleagues without their consent.
Since the company doesn't do business in the EU, the GDPR can go get knotted.
PS. My gay mates have also not decided to go straight just because Uganda outlaws it.
>> Since the company doesn't do business in the EU, the GDPR can go get knotted.
That's not how international law works though, especially when wielded by a large economic block. If the EU wants to put pressure on a company the pain is harsh. For instance they can blacklist the company and it's C-suite from international banking and ask any in-treaty country to extradite or arrest employees.
Also are you admitting to breaking EU law and moral/ethical codes on HN ?
Conflating blasphemy with ethics on privacy? So deities and the right to privacy are both something that belong to the past according to you?
One of them is in the universal declaration of Human Rights. Not caring about privacy is immoral wherever you are and brings only support from unaligned actors in this world.
Since the company doesn't do business in the EU, the GDPR can go get knotted.
PS. My gay mates have also not decided to go straight just because Uganda outlaws it.