Shopify Is Illegal in Germany
Mini Ask HN: How would a small company, say a code forge, that is based in the US ensure that it is operating such that it is legal to have EU customers?<p>All operations will be in the US (interaction only through a website). The forge will be designed to allow all of a user's data to be downloaded by that user (easy access to all data). It will also allow wiping away any reference to a user in commits (right to be forgotten).<p>But PII does need to be collected, such as username, password, IP address, public keys, etc. There are zero plans to collect anything that is not needed; only the minimum data needed will be collected.<p>Edit: Oh, and the forge would <i>not</i> send data to third parties at all, unless such third parties are cloning code, but then they would be users, right?<p>Would it be legal to accept EU customers? If not, would there be anything to do to make it legal?