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My understanding was that GDPR requirements apply to all citizens of the EU regardless of where the company is located. Someone else can chime in if that's not accurate!

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It doesn't care about anyone's citizenship, but it can apply to US-based entities if they're sufficiently targeting Europe in offering goods or services.

But is HN targeting Europe or any geographic area? If someone from Europe decides to participate, isn't that a conscious decision to participate in a forum outside of Europe and thus outside of the GDPR? Should someone expect their own, local laws to apply around the world?

The last time I touched on this with our legal team (and it was not related to GDPR, it was just related to data storage of EU Citizens) the storage location was a very relevant key point.

Having said that, what about CDN's? I'm certain that lots of comment data is located in CDN's across the EU, US, and Asia.

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