Submission + - Long Arm of EU Data Law May Apply to US Companies (varonis.com)
Cavaradossi writes: Extraterritoriality means your strange foreign laws apply to me. US used this principle in issuing warrant to search Microsoft's data held at an ... Irish data center. Now EU with its pending Data Protection Regulation will use the same concept in applying their data privacy rules to any company that processes EU data — even when they have no servers in the EU.