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>>grabeh+(OP)
How does this affect people who aren't based in Europe?

>>maxk42+C
I think many (most?) companies will implement these privacy policies across all of their users as it can be hard to determine whether a user is in the EU or not... so indirectly, this law might mean that everybody will finally have strong privacy guarantees (at least when it comes to companies of a meaningful size).

>>halfli+N
And as so often the EU will be the initiator of a world wide adoption of (semi) unified rules, as it was for USB charging, among other things.

It will naturally get a lot of flack and a few people/companies will make it their scapegoat as to deflect from them as usual, but that's - sadly - almost normal now.

Is it all good: no!

Is it a good start: yes!

Is it IMPOSSIBLE to comply: heck no, I'm working at a small Austrian company and we had to change almost nothing, as lo and behold, we have no desire to be a data kraken and tried to held the privacy of our customer and users always on a reasonable level. As we'd wish that others do with our data and use of service...