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Short answer: No, but it doesn’t matter.

If you are a Non-EU business, that is a business with no legal presence or employees in the EU then you can comfortably skip GDPR compliance with minimal risk (some unknown obscure treaty provision?)

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That's actually not true in terms of the GDPR. A company, simply, only needs to have an EU citizen as a customer for the company to be regulated by the GDPR. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/12/04/ye...

Yes. It SAYS that. However it’s about enforcement.

Dumb example: Blasphemy is illegal in Ireland but Irish Gov can’t enforce that law in France.

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