This is low-key one of the reasons I love being a dual-citizen. I hold an EU citizenship and use it regularly against companies.
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Doesn't the GDRP only apply if you're living in the EU?
You just have to make the request when you're in the EU...
But they can't prove I'm not... and I have very strong evidence that I could be with the passport. It's simple to say that you use a USA based VPN as well. Ultimately you don't have to unconditionally prove that your in the EU... most companies don't want to deal with the hassle.
Imagine living in the EU. GDPR is fun, but there are ways around it for companies.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — You may not know it, but thousands of often shadowy companies routinely traffic in personal data you probably never agreed to share — everything from your real-time location information to private financial details.
Gavin Newsom still has to decide whether to sign the measure, whose impact could potentially extend well beyond state lines given California’s history of setting similar trends.
Privacy advocates have warned for years that location and seemingly non-specific personal data — often collected by advertisers and amassed and sold by brokers — can be used to identify individuals.
They also charge that the data often isn’t well secured and that the brokers aren’t covered by laws that require the clear consent of the person being tracked.
The general lack of U.S. restrictions on what brokers can do with the vast amount of data they collect means there’s aren’t many legal protections to prevent outsiders from spying on politicians, celebrities and just about anyone who is a target of idle curiosity, or malice.
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So, is this any use against out of state or country actors ? Otherwise borderline useless, the scum will move.
Companies are only allowed to operate within a given state if they comply with the laws, so a company unwilling to play by the rules will be committing financial suicide by losing business opportunities in the biggest tech industry state.
I can see this going similar way like the useless do not call list. The legit companies that are operating in California getting clean and the scummy companies operating outside holding all the data and having a ball with them