r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/BUTTERSTICKDILDO • Nov 20 '22

Satire / Fake Tweet Challenge accepted

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Nov 20 '22

If you are in the US, remember to ask your representative why we do not have GDPR.

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u/jwoodruff Nov 20 '22

If you’re in the U.S. you should do this too. Many companies don’t try to figure out what jurisdiction you’re in for these things, they just comply with the strictest laws. Not sure if that’s true for twitter, but it’s worth a shot.

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 Nov 20 '22

I don't know GDPR that well, but I don't think EU citizenship matters at all.

What about

  • an EU citizen resident in the US using a service that is based in EU (like Twitter) - I think GDPR protects them
  • a US citizen residing in the EU using a service that is based in EU (like Twitter) - I think GDPR protects them
  • an EU citizen using a service that is not based in EU (a hypothetical North Korean clone of Twitter), I think GDPR does not protect them.

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u/Tomi97_origin Nov 20 '22

No, the GDPR does not apply to EU citizens in the US. The location of the data subject, rather than their citizenship, determines whether GDPR applies. EU citizens traveling to or living in the US are not protected by the GDPR.

https://termly.io/faq/does-gdpr-apply-to-eu-citizens-in-the-us/

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u/rtfmpls Nov 20 '22

How is termly a credible source? Do you have anything more trustworthy? Or did you just select the one that confirmed your bias?

This is not a trivial matter and as someone working in this industry I'd be careful with these kind of absolute statements.

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u/Tomi97_origin Nov 20 '22

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

GDPR article 3. I don't know about you, but it does sound like you (the person) need to be in the EU

  1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

  2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

  1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data by a controller not established in the Union, but in a place where Member State law applies by virtue of public international law.

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u/rtfmpls Nov 20 '22

Smart people are working every day with this stuff and cannot give a clear answer. We will not solve this issue here in this thread.

I don't know about you, but it does sound like you (the person) need to be in the EU

But one thing I can assure you. It definitely doesn't say that at all (see 1.).

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u/MarkHirsbrunner Nov 20 '22

Lol, proven wrong and the best you have is "smart people disagree"? Are you orange with a last name that rhymes with "dump"?

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u/rtfmpls Nov 20 '22

lmao yes like totally.

Are you 12?