Extraterritorial scope
A regulation's reach beyond the country or region that enacted it, based on where the regulated activity's effects land rather than where the regulated entity is physically located. The EU AI Act, like the GDPR before it, uses this output-based logic to reach American companies with no EU office or employees.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in The AI Lobbyist: Certified AI Policy Strategist.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A legal provision that applies to conduct or processing occurring, in part or in whole, outside the country that issued the law, based on a connecting factor such as the location of the affected individuals. PIPL's Article 3 extraterritorial scope is the clearest example in this topic: it can apply to an organization processing personal information of individuals in China even when that organization has no China office.
A regulation's reach beyond the country or region that enacted it, based on where the regulated activity's effects land rather than where the regulated entity is physically located. The EU AI Act, like the GDPR before it, uses this output-based logic to reach American companies with no EU office or employees.
The property of certain Chinese instruments (notably the GenAI Interim Measures and the Deep Synthesis Provisions) to apply to services accessible within China's territory regardless of where the provider is incorporated, distinguishing the existence of an obligation from the mechanics of completing its filing.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- The One-Page Hill Briefer: What the EU AI Act Means for U.S. Companies · AI Law in Practice: The Compliance-to-Persuasion Toolkit, The AI Lobbyist: Certified AI Policy Strategist
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.