Goodbye FLoC, hello Topics

Goodbye FLoC, hello Topics

You don't need to interact with a country to be affected by their laws, you just need to interact with a person from that country.

Nope. Here's Russian version.
Foreign citizens enjoy rights in the Russian Federation and bear obligations on an equal footing with citizens of the Russian Federation, with the exception of cases provided for by federal law.

Clearly there's some miscommunication going on here, because I don't see the relation. The GDPR doesn't apply to the data of Russian citizens, so what's the relevance?

In particular Russia demands that information about Russian citizens is processed in Russia — and wouldn't care one jot if it would contradicts the GDPR.

How can it contradict the GDPR since it doesn't apply to the data of Russian citizens in Russia?

Rights of certain individual citizens? Nope. Never seen such an inclination in China authorities before, don't think they would start doing that now.

Then you need to get up to speed (this entered into force 3 months ago):

The PIPL establishes the mechanism of personal information protection in China and it is modelled, in part, on the GDPR. It introduces several important concepts, such as personal information, sensitive personal information, and processing. It explicitly stipulates its exterritorial jurisdiction, and provides the traditional elements for data protection, such as principles of personal information processing, consent and non-consent grounds for processing, cross-border transfer mechanisms and rights of data subjects. At the time of writing this note, some provisions are still waiting for implementing rules to provide clarification.

The right of privacy and personal information would be categorised as a personality right, which provides a legal remedy from the perspective of Torts in cases of infringement of privacy and/or personal information. Furthermore, privacy is defined by law for the first time, which refers to the private peaceful life of a natural person and the private space, private activities, and private information that a natural person does not wish to be known by others.

Of course, being China it's surrounded by certifications and a lot of other top-down bureaucracy that the GDPR doesn't have, but many of the basics are similar.

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