Goodbye FLoC, hello Topics

Goodbye FLoC, hello Topics

Yes, it does. It's the fact that the data subject is EU-resident that counts from the law's point of view. Which is a separate matter to enforcing it, as it's very hard to enforce against an entity with no EU links at all.

Effectively, though, the EU is saying that if you're big enough to have EU links, GDPR applies to you whether you take efforts to avoid coming under its banner or not.

Note: you can avoid this step in the future by logging into your LWN account.