: Technically your question is one of international law. But I think that's stretching the technicality well past absurdity for a public forum such as this. My answer is from a more practical

@Ravi8258870

Technically your question is one of international law.
But I think that's stretching the technicality well past absurdity for a public forum such as this.

My answer is from a more practical "what should the IT folks do until the lawyers and judges figure all this out?" point of view.

The answer is do nothing until you see the BIG players responding and then you will have to (like the rest of us) inevitably follow their lead.

Don't expect anything significant to happen for years.

These laws are rooted in aspiration and are an attempt to slowly guide privacy best practice (from the EU/ICO point of view) amongst web-hosts and web client developers backed up with the eventual full weight of legal requirement from a large jurisdiction (the EU).

They obviously hope that the market will eventually come up with privacy-robust, usable and economically practical solutions.

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