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Common reporting standard
I have a question that I still have no answer for.
I know that countries have a mutual agreement called Common Reporting Standard which is thought for fiscal transparency, but how does it operate?
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Which EU country's regulation is applied when doing direct marketing from country A to a legal or natural person in country B?
So I'm wondering which country's legislation is used when, for example, a company from Sweden would do electronic direct marketing to another company in, say, Germany.
Assuming that Sweden and Germany ...
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Does my website have to comply with the legislation of every country in the world?
I have a website (cad-gis.online) running on an apache2 server on my raspberry pi connected to my router in Germany. It has some pretty simple html and css content and two javascripts using leaflet ...
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Permission to work as freelancer
Is it permitted to work as a freelancer on upwork or another freelancer website if you live on Germany or not ?
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Can the German Embassy go through your Whatsapp messages during Visa document verification process?
I am a Pakistani professional living and working in Germany under an "EU Blue Card" visa. I got married a little while back and to join me in Germany, my wife has applied for a Family ...
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What potential lawsuits does the recent Expensify fiasco expose the company to?
As some of you may know just by checking your mailboxes, David Barrett, the CEO of Expensify, recently sent out a political endorsement e-mail to all of Expensify's users (supposedly, 10 million ...
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How can it be legal in the USA to have live television shows/streams of cops interacting with real people? [duplicate]
I always found even the concept of cops having "bodycams" extremely scary and creepy, but having people watch it all live, as a freaking television show or "YouTube stream" or whatever, is even worse.
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Some of my personal information was made public some time ago as a school project. Can I legally demand removal of said information?
Some years ago, as a group project in school, I and my group published on a certain page (REDACTED.wordpress.com) information including things like my name, email, phone number, pictures, etc. It was ...
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Do VPN providers really operate under single jurisdiction, even though their servers are located in many different countries?
For example, ProtonVPN claims in many places (e.g. Transparency Report, Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy) that their service operates "under Swiss law", which, among other things (based on their ...
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Dealing With A Private Institution Policy To Inspect All Encryption-capable Devices Leaving The Country
I am a student recently admitted to the University of Cincinnati, and I noticed something very peculiar and frightening in section 3.11 of their technology code of conduct.
In light of clause 3.1, "...
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Will China's new encryption laws affect electronics exported to the USA?
China is about to roll out a new encryption law that will require the Chinese government "to seize all communications, data, and other information stored in electronic form that belong to foreign ...
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Would it be legal to send an active electronics device through the postal system?
The active device would be a low power electronic device that is designed to log any attempt either failed or successful to view or tamper with the contents of a parcel from the time it leaves the ...
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Can online business in one country deny access via terms of service to entities in another country?
Can an American company state in their terms of service that if an entity is from a designated country they are not allowed to use the service?
In other words would that be a legal and enforceable ...
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Description of 3rd party cookies in the privacy policy for GDPR compliance?
In order to comply with GDPR's right to be informed section, some sites try to describe what specific cookies that 3rd parties supply do. Is it OK to just list what cookies these parties set, and ...
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Can the terms of service contain a clause that instructs a user to forfeit their rights under the GDPR?
Suppose an American company wishes to do business with European parties. Could their terms of service say that as a user of their services the user forfeits any rights afforded to them by the GDPR ...
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Handling a GDPR subject access request when using google analytics?
When using Google Analytics and receiving a GDPR subject access request does the party receiving the request also have to send all data collected by Google Analytics?
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What's the difference between "GDPR" "Privacy Shield" and "Safe Harbor"?
I'm getting confused on the differences between "GDPR", "Privacy Shield", and "Safe Harbor". Can someone please elaborate? I think Privacy Shield replaces "Safe Harbor" but I still don't understand ...
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What is the legal mechanism by which the GDPR might apply to a business with no presence in the EU?
My family has a small side business selling some things through the internet. As far as I know, we aren't likely to have any customers who are EU citizens, but it's certainly not outside the realm of ...
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Business obligations under the OECD AEI/CRS
101 governments have meanwhile signed the OECD Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters (AEI, AEoI) and have thus agreed to send information on foreign account ...
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Which laws apply on the world wide web?
This might be a very widely scoped question. I suspect by using common sense, that each country has different laws that might apply on internet use in that specific country.
But nevertheless, I'm ...
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Is there any law that Windows 10 "spying" might violate?
Windows 10 terms of service document includes Microsoft privacy statement which contains the following excerpt (as cited on http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/)
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