Very nice article, a succinct covering of the topic, but one correction must be made as it is a far too common myth:
If you don't have a physical presence in the EU, then you are not subject to the GDPR or any other EU laws and regulations. It doesn't matter if the visitor to your site is an EU citizen, the site isn't going to them, they are coming to the site. As the operator of the site, you are only subject to the laws and regulations of where you reside and where your site is physically hosted. If neither of those are inside the EU, then the EU has exactly zero authority over anything you do, digital or otherwise.
Of course you should respect the privacy of your users, but don't be fooled by the overly grandiose wording of the GDPR and other recent regulations; no nation can make laws that apply to people outside their borders.
Very nice article, a succinct covering of the topic, but one correction must be made as it is a far too common myth:
If you don't have a physical presence in the EU, then you are not subject to the GDPR or any other EU laws and regulations. It doesn't matter if the visitor to your site is an EU citizen, the site isn't going to them, they are coming to the site. As the operator of the site, you are only subject to the laws and regulations of where you reside and where your site is physically hosted. If neither of those are inside the EU, then the EU has exactly zero authority over anything you do, digital or otherwise.
Of course you should respect the privacy of your users, but don't be fooled by the overly grandiose wording of the GDPR and other recent regulations; no nation can make laws that apply to people outside their borders.
Thanks for the update , it should be meaningful