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GDPRRegulation (EU) 2016/679

Article 3: Territorial scope

GDPR Art. 3, Chapter I

1. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not. 2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the p

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