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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title says it. Apparently lemmy devs are not concerned with such worldly matters as privacy, or respecting international privacy laws.

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[+] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a ridiculous judgement against me in Germany. (Complicated shenanigans around an inheritance where the authorities' legal representatives did shady shit specifically to unload an estate that would have cost them.) Technically I owe the city of Frankfurt something like 50,000€ in fines.

I'm comfortable with this.

Why?

Because good fucking luck enforcing a European fine on a Canadian citizen resident in China. Even if they catch me out when I visit Germany (which I have done a couple of times without incident since the judgement was levied against me), watch the judge make grumpy-faces at attorneys who sent legal documents in German to a Canadian in China whose repeated requests for translated versions was denied. Their case will vanish in a puff of legal sanctions and I'll make fucking sure on top of it that it becomes a press circus.

EU types are almost as bad as American types for thinking their laws are extraterritorial. I love rubbing the fact that they aren't in their faces.