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In order to collect, store and process data about people in the EU, you have to do so in a manner compliant with the EU law on that.

Collecting that data on a web page is a choice.

A semi-hidden security benefit of GDPR is that it makes people think twice before collecting and keeping data - you can't leak data that isn't in your database in the first place.

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If I am talking to a group of friends some in the US over Facebook messenger. Should that be stored on EU servers?

You first asked "if I create any web page".

Now "Talking over Facebook messenger" is a complete change of subject.

It is on Facebook, not you, to operate Facebook messenger in a legal way.

How can Facebook both allow a user in the EU to send messages to a group of people in the US and not store data in the US?

> How can Facebook Run their business in a legal way?

There's a word for businesses that are systemically unable to comply with the law.

I don't know if Facebook is one of those, but it might be. Shutting down is always an option for that kind of company. Nothing of vale would be lost.

If you think it's technically impossible the burden of proof is on you.

Facebook has not claimed it's not technically possible.

Does it really take that much of a leap of logic that if EU person sends data to a person in the US, that data is going to be stored on a server in the US?

>Does it really take that much of a leap of logic that if EU person sends data to a person in the US, that data is going to be stored on a server in the US?

Yeah, it does. A person in the US is not a server in the US. It's an iPhone in the US, not a server.

Does it really take that much of a leap of logic to understand that the server doesn't have to be on the same continent as the user?

That's not at all how it works. You're arguing against points where your understanding of the related technology is poor.

Sure. Or any country that complies with EU data protection and privacy laws.

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