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		merinowool on May 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted art... This means this should be applied to everyone because how do you check that someone is an EU resident? Should websites display a page requesting visitor to upload their residency certificate to be complaint?

icebraining on May 1, 2018 [–]

No, it means they have to apply to people connecting from the EU.

tankenmate on May 1, 2018 | [–]

Have you any document from a data protection authority or lawyer that makes this claim? or even close to it?

icebraining on May 1, 2018 | | [–]

He's not a lawyer, but as a "GDPR implementation leader" I bet he talked to some:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-does-apply-eu-citizens-g...

But really, it's plain from the text.

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