EasyDNS has an interesting position on GDPR compliance for businesses not based in the EU:
"All prior history of internet governance would have us taking the position that being a Canadian company we are going to operate by Canadian law, and not by European law."
Also:
"Sure, Google and Facebook and Apple do have to worry about this, because they’ve domiciled their foreign HQ’s in Ireland so that they can shelter all that foreign revenue from US taxation."
https://easydns.com/blog/2018/05/28/gdrp-why-should-any-non-euro-companies-care/
@starbreaker They have to obey by EU standards in cases where they are serving EU customers really.
Still... implementing GDPR is just good manners at this point.
@mareklach That's my understanding as well, but it'll be interesting to see how it works out in court.
@starbreaker The Verge seems to think that they have solved GDPR by this banner. They haven't.
Techcrunch has a better understanding in this regard, because the key to GDPR is for the people to have the ability to OPT-OUT of tracking.
@mareklach Fair enough. I found EasyDNS' post interesting because they aren't talking about adtech, but the WHOIS database, which stores names and contact details for everybody who rents a domain name.
@starbreaker Oooh, right! In that case implementing GDPR would mean I think just informing customers about all the details with regards to how these information are stored and where, and what information is stored.
They would also have to delete a user account IMMEDIATELY upon a user's request without keeping their data in a backup for however many days.
It really wouldn't be that hard to comply for them.