united-kingdom gdpr european-union jurisdiction extraterritorial-jurisdiction
Do any other consumer rights laws have extraterritorial applicability to international organisations that cater to British or European customers?
<p>The GDPR purports to bind any organisation, wheresoever it may be based, that serves individuals based in the EU, or (as the case may be) the UK.</p>
<p>The GDPR governs the obligations of organisations and businesses to the individuals they serve, much as consumer rights legislation governs (likewise asymmetrically) the relationship, rights and obligations between traders and consumers. Meanwhile, anti discrimination laws similarly govern those between individuals and <em>service providers</em>.</p>
<p>But do any of these other types of legislation, in either the UK or the EU, have such extraterritorial jurisdiction/reach?</p>

<p>There is nothing extraterritorial about these laws. If a company sells a good or provides a service to individuals based in the EU, then this good or service has to comply with EU laws.</p>
<p>This concept is self-evident for physical goods that are produced anywhere in the world and then sold in the EU and the GDPR just applies this concept to services provided over the internet. The same legal concept also holds in all other major jurisdictions.</p>
<p>The only thing that makes this more complicated for the GDPR is the actual enforcability of these laws but that is a technical issue not a legal one.</p>
