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Loic on Sept 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Force Facebook into Handing Over their Secr...

If you are a US company operating a US website, you are not bound to the EU law in that regard. But if you launch trackwhatever.[EU top level domain] to better target these markets, you may need a EU address to get the domain. In that case, you may need to comply with the EU law.

justincormack on Sept 25, 2011 [–]

Its not mainly about TLDs, it is about whether you have an EU operating company, like Facebook does, or if you store any personal data in the EU.

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