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>>ANewbu+(OP)
> The ICO also confirmed that companies could not avoid accountability by withdrawing their services in the UK.

This is quite a slippery slope. If I host a website in one country, I do not necessarily care where people access my website from. It is not like I actively provide a service to them - they just use internet (decentralised network) to access it. What if I publish a newspaper here, someone takes it where the contents are illegal, am I accountable?

>>elAhmo+ld
What they mean, and to take an example that it purposely extreme: If you kill someone in a country you cannot avoid accountability in law by fleeing that country.

If they breached laws and regulations then withdrawing their service from the country afterwards does not change anything regarding those breaches (investigation still ongoing, though).

>>mytail+ic1
This is neither comparable nor a good example.

It's not comparable because the "crime" has been committed in the hosting country (where it's arguably not even a crime) and it's a bad example because there are many incidents of murderers fleeing to non-extradition countries.