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Incorrect. With GDPR the EU extended their power to protect all EU citizens regardless of residency in, or out, of the EU.

Of course the EU will have trouble enforcing that protection against companies that don't operate in the EU. But the protection remains, even if it's practically unenforceable.

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Incorrect. It protects PII in the EU. It has nothing to do with EU citizenship. It doesn't try to enforce outside the EU either. If you want to move PII out of the EU you have to agree by the rules given. That's not the EU trying to enforce anything outside of the EU but you making an agreement to move data outside the EU on certain terms. It is not the same thing as trying to force EU law on non-EU.

I don't know why people keep repeating this myth. Laws like these are old as dirt. It could as well have been about blood samples from Denmark used in research in the US: the samples are protected by Danish law and to use them in the US you have to agree to certain rules. Again an example of you saying you will follow certain rules to be allowed to transport and use the samples outside Denmark, not Denmark forcing their laws on anything in another country. You are free to not sign anything and not use or move the blood samples or PII anywhere.

I'm British and have a British passport and I permanently reside in the UK but I'm also technically an Irish citizen because my Irish father was born in Ireland.

I have never applied for an Irish passport but I am automatically an Irish citizen based on my ancestry. Does Facebook know this? Do I need to inform them to benefit from GDPR protections on an ongoing basis?

How the hell is any of this enforceable?

> Do I need to inform [facebook] to benefit from GDPR protections on an ongoing basis?

That depends on what you want to do. What GDPR protection are you trying to benefit from?

> How the hell is any of this enforceable?

You can try to reach out to the regulator if you believe your GDPR protections are being violated,

https://www.dataprotection.ie/

My experience with the ROI is that they are unlikely to jeopardise Facebook pulling out of Dublin.

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