On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
The email address is an address, part of your personally identifiable
data.
I'm not disputing that. I write software that deals with PII in my day
job.
If an identifiable entity in the US sends mass mail to European
addresses, then they must have a representative in Europe and comply
with the GDPR.
(1) how do you *force* someone in the US to have a representative in
Europe?
(2) if they do no business in the EU, and do not have any presence in the
EU (sending email to addresses in the EU is not "having a presence in the
EU"), how are they subject to fines for violating the law in the EU?
If, for example, I - a private, non-commercial entity - hosted a mailing
list on my private server (which I have done in the past), and someone in
the EU subscribed and posted to that list and their email address was
captured in the list archives, and they later unsubscribed and asked for
their email address to be removed from the list archives, and I (for
whatever reason) did not do so, *how* would an EU court levy fines against
me?
The US is not a signatory to the GDPR as far as I am aware, and I have
*no* legal presence outside the US.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 17:03, John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
Yes, if you are European, and might get some money as compensation.
From a US political advocacy group which has no commercial presence in EU?
How does GDPR apply in that situation?
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:19, Joe Acquisto-j4 <j...@j4computers.com> wrote:
Gents,
I somehow became subscribed to a list, political in nature, in whose mail I
have no interest. This is a legitimate AFAIK, US organization.
Thus far, several uses of their unsubscribe link had not provided relief.
Direct email to the founder and operations manager seem to have been ignored as
well.
While I can just dump their mail, it offends my finely hones sense of
propriety, justice and my all around good nature. Besides, it hoses me off.
So, is there some "authority" to which I can report these a**holes? that might
have an effect?
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