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I expect him to be sued to oblivion when the GDPR comes into effect. This is all of irresponsible dangerous and illegal.

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I don't. The data doesn't even contain surnames of people.

Does ProfileEngine have a local instance in the EU or something? Are you thinking the "G" in GDPR means "global?"

The GDPR purports to apply to any EU person, no matter where they are. That's one of the many problems with it.

However, it is already the case that the EU casts a wide net. blekko got a demand for info from the EU regarding Google's dominance of the search space in relation to mobile apps. Most of the questions were about opinions, not facts. After consulting with our lawyers, they said that the small amount of advertising income we had from the EU was enough that the EU could demand that we answer, but we could ignore the first one and see if they asked again more firmly.

Would it be possible for the EU to get an arrest warrant and extradite the creator to the EU?

Or if an extradition isn't possible, what if the creator goes on vacation to the EU, would the creator get arrested then?

Doesn't this become the internet archive's problem, and not the creator. And all the internet archive would have to do is set up a way for people to remove their data from the archive.

No. Unless he goes to the EU he is not subject to the laws of another country.

Then how was Roman Seleznev arrested and charged under US laws even though he never visited the US, or even a country with an extradition treaty with the US?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Seleznev

Because small, weak countries like Maldives will kidnap and send anyone, anywhere if the country asking for the kidnapping victim is wealthy and/or powerful enough. A much more withering indictment could be made against New Zealand for their attempted extradition of Kim Dotcom to the USA.

Exactly. People tend to counter with "well the US did it". That's your countries fault people, I'm sorry, and as a US citizen I work on these things, but please stop blaming us for your weak governments. We have our own corruption problems, and if you think I mean the outsider who just wrecked two political dynasties and our MSM then I politely suggest you figure out who owns your news sources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661704

BTW that was Biden's OP for his pals. Creepy guy.

This guy most likely has no presence or assets in EU. So they will have no success in trying to enforce it.

And he probably won't be able to go there in the future without issues.

I doubt they will start flagging tourists for GDPR debts. But if they do, many Americans do just fine without ever visiting the EU.

GDPR is not in effect, yet. Can it retroactively go behind previous events? Not sure, not a lawyer.

Very very few laws become retroactive.

SOSTA/FOSTA was designed to be retroactive.

How is collating public profiles dangerous, or illegal? GDPR doesn’t cover it unless the poeple in question make a specific request either.

It's a bit difficult to make a request when a torrent of the data is released.

And the privacy settings on facebook in 2007 were "lol what's privacy?"

You’re not wrong, but you also didn’t answer any of my questions.

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