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The US used this against Rossmann GmbH, which was a German company, in Germany, selling cuban cigars to a German.

And they got cut off from PayPal, and the credit card networks for quite a while.

If the US can use it for selling a product in a store that’s entirely legal to sell under EU law, then the EU can also use the same rules for GDPR.

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That's a perfect illustration of my point. The US went to pretty great lengths to have specific bans on import / export from Cuba. German train companies build plenty of things that would not meet FRA standards in the US, the US does nothing about it. But Cuba is seen as a special case. So do you think GDPR and PII are more like Cuba and terrorism, or more like chemicals and transportation standards? I think the latter.

Definitely the former: the way Europeans are talking about GDPR, insufficient respect for privacy is a human rights violation. We don't sanction Cuba because it makes trains the wrong way, we sanction it because we feel it violates its citizens' human rights.

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