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Originally Posted by nikad
I agree, you have to to be compliant with your countries' laws and regulations, but if your product or sorvice crosses the US border then you are doing business with the US, I guess this is a big whole, also it would be interesting to know, for instance if that UK law regarding privacy of information is regarding any person of any origin or you are not supposed to reveal personal info of UK residents/citizens ? Same thing with Canada, etc
Actually I am not sure at this point if european webmasters will see a benefit of these new 2257, since the US market is too big to be missed...
nik
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The data protection act is for UK residents. It does not say that you cannot keep personal data. What it does is strictly control how it can be used distributed and stored.
I appreciate what you say about the US market place being very significant, but what I don?t like are all these armchair lawyers dictating with speculation.
It is true that products and services imported into a country must meet the countries local laws and standards. This is why the transmission of explicit adult material across the internet can be classed as a product making it eligible for scrutiny under the local laws.
The problem starts when Americans buy from a foreign web site that has no clear intention of selling to the US. Control through the billing system would be the only way to limit this. Internet business is special in that it opens up so many grey areas that are often difficult to control.