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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...

>>tlampo+32
A few years from now I predict people will deny that the EU had anything to do with instigating this, the way people often insist the manufacturers just suddenly decided USB charging was the way to go and ignore that it first happened after the EU threatened them.