Source please?
> If you are going to crank the anxiety to 10 every time a situation like this occurs, you probably shouldn't be running a business or handling others' data in the first place.
I'm not running one right now. It's not the situation that give me anxiety, it's just that it no longer seems interesting to support European customer for a potential business if that imply that I risk that much over their information. They just removed a big bunch of potential customer for a potential company. I would already try my best to limit the amount of PII but there's many time you just can't.
I'm from Quebec. Here we have laws over lottery. You know what it imply? If you make a lottery here in Quebec, you need to follow some simple regulations (I personally know people that did it essentially for fun (not for profit)) so they are pretty easy to follow, and pay the taxes for the winner. You know what I had to endure each time I went on an online contest, a broad exclusion because it was just not worth it to follow theses regulations. It's crazy the number of contest where you could literally do CTRL+F "Quebec" in the rule and find our little province (nowadays I see more of "where law forbid it" or stuff like that, but I haven't try to participate for a long time on a contest either).
Do theses companies had too much anxiety for our regulation? None at all, they were some multi billions companies that did this. It was just not worth it.
That is a sweeping generalization and if you dilute and guess what the most probable reason for excluding Quebec was,- it's probably for the best. It was a shady contest to begin with.
The Canadian sweepstakes law and corresponding province laws are not that hard and costly to comply with as well. Look at the countless valid and non-scam contests present and available to our citizens. You, I and rest of us should be glad that rules like these exist since a there are people companies out there willing to part you with your hard earned money.
As an example, you just need to store my skill testing answer and if I get awarded a price, reset a flag that I need to fill out a new answer. In Quebec, you need to give monetary guarantees to make sure you pay out and give contest rules out to the bureau ahead of time. That is not a tall task. It's for the better if those shady contests did not want to participate
> Source please?
Tax laws come to mind for one.
That’s what you think. But its still a risk, because its different. It’s still easier and cheaper short term and long term just to skip the oddballs.
It’s why you see so many online contests in the US that only apply here. Not because they want to avoid it, but because its easier and cheaper not to comply with other laws.