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Laws don't put borders on bytes, they put them on the people and companies that handle them.

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In a physical sense they don't but in a legal sense they do. If you are dealing with data that was "created" by an EU entity (which lives in cyberspace) it's treated as European data by GDPR

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same deal with US citizens with residence permission outside USA. the degree to which they pursue it depends on the bounty they will get from it. tax agencies are extortionists, in a government suit costume. the cost of extraction is proportional to the per-extraction minimum cost. so if you are und...

There are no 'European bytes'. GDPR applies to people, not data. GDPR doesn't care about 'European data', it cares about people in the EU. If an American tourist is in Berlin, GDPR protects them. If an EU citizen moves to Tokyo, it doesn't. It's always about the physical location of the human being,...