Japanese firms slow to get compliant with new EU data privacy rules: poll

Received tons of GDPR mails of suppliers, news sites, banks, insurance companies etc since May and the very first came from a Japanese site on industrial news asking for permission ton sharing information.

Those are EU Laws not JP Laws, so no need when you're based in JP

Those are EU Laws not JP Laws, so no need when you're based in JP

If they do business in the EU, they need to follow EU law.

Those are EU Laws not JP Laws, so no need when you're based in JP

If they do business in the EU, they need to follow EU law.

Apparently this law extends to covering Europeans that are not even residing in Europe. So if your French and using a U.S based service in the U.S, that service still has to comply. If that's true and apparently it is, than its ridiculous. European laws should apply to Europeans on European territory, whether they are E.U companies or not, but not Japan, the U.S or anywhere else.

Vast overreach. Just like Article 13, another massive overreach.

I feel like its designed to bring down U.S internet companies a peg because they are so dominant.

I just don't feel like these laws are being put forward solely in the interest of E.U consumers and citizens. Its E.U startup businesses and other, non U.S majors, that will suffer with any compliance costs disproportionately impacting them because Google etc have limitless resources and can afford to implement pretty much anything with a cost that is basically lunch money to them.