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1. elAhmo+ld[view] [source] 2025-09-30 14:12:39
>>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?

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2. accoun+jVg[view] [source] 2025-10-06 10:51:22
>>elAhmo+ld
I agree, but if you sell products or subscriptions to people in a foreign country the situation becomes different. And if you run ads then the situation is more complicated but closer to that than to your personal website.

IMO the question is not if such services should be held accountable by local laws but how they should be held accountable. I think it would make more sense to go after the UK entities profiting from the endeavor: advertizers and financial institutions involved.

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