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Plus Australia is not part of the EU.

And? Any service that serves European customers needs to adhere to the GDPR.

It's possibly a good commercial decision given the size of the EU market, but a lot of people seem a bit delusional as to how much of an authority the EU is. They can't compel people outside their jurisdiction with the GDPR, anymore than Australia can with this law.

Actually they can - the second you place your foot on EU (or collaborating - extradition treaties) soil, and of course if you want to do business in EU then you need to have legal presence in the EU.

But if you set foot inside the EU... you are in the EUs jurisdiction.

Extradition treaties are usually subject to 'dual criminality' - so you would have to be breaking the country you are in as well to be extradited for violation of that same law to the EU.

And be realistic. The US hasn't even successfully managed to extradite Kim Dotcom from mighty New Zealand.

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