Originally Posted by
hailstorm
On the
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tech...ce-notice.html thread, it states:
I don't think that this results in full compliance. GDPR rights are for
EU citizens, not people that currently happen to be physically present within a European Union country. FlyerTalk admin especially should know that these people are all over the world.
I think that’s for the courts, not FT or IB administration, to decide, IMO. When I travel, I have certain rights as a US citizen. When I am in the EU, or anywhere else, those rights are generally superseded by local law. While GDPR rights may pretend to be portable, the facts of law seem to be contrary.
The issue that is getting traction in the EU, with at least four complaints filed against Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp, is whether sites can offer services to those within the EU by only offering an “all or nothing” (not merely agreeing to data collection related to the provision of service, but rather including data gathering for or by third parties, such as advertisers) acceptance policy in its TOU.
"The GDPR explicitly allows any data processing that is strictly necessary for the service - but using the data additionally for advertisement or to sell it on needs the users' free opt-in consent," said noyb.eu in a statement.
Link to BBC article.
Does FT fully comply with GDPR? IANAL. That’s what IB legal will have to examine, depending on the EU courts’ decisions, I suspect. Particularly given several US news sites are currently unavailable to users within the EU because of GDLR requirements (
link to BBC article).