<story><title>Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Okay, what does it mean “residency”? In the UK there’s no address registry where you declare your address.&lt;p&gt;EU citizen works in the UK for 2 years then goes to Turkey for a vacation but likes the place so much, decides to stay for longer when still remote working for the same London company.Also connects through VPN because the Turks love banning websites.&lt;p&gt;Where this person residence is? Are the UK, USA, EU or Turkish rules apply? How FB would know about it?&lt;p&gt;That’s not an extreme scenario BTW, it happens all the time.</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Citizenship matters not. Only residency.&lt;p&gt;Just because I&amp;#x27;m a Britsh person living in the US doesn&amp;#x27;t mean I&amp;#x27;m not subject to the death penalty or am exempt from having to buy health insurance, for example.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>OOPMan</author><text>Countries generally have rules around residency that boil down to &amp;quot;if you spend most of a year within the country you are resident in that country&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Tax residency is separate and the rules are a bit different and again vary by country.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-facebook-exclusive-idUSKBN28P2HH</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>Okay, what does it mean “residency”? In the UK there’s no address registry where you declare your address.&lt;p&gt;EU citizen works in the UK for 2 years then goes to Turkey for a vacation but likes the place so much, decides to stay for longer when still remote working for the same London company.Also connects through VPN because the Turks love banning websites.&lt;p&gt;Where this person residence is? Are the UK, USA, EU or Turkish rules apply? How FB would know about it?&lt;p&gt;That’s not an extreme scenario BTW, it happens all the time.</text></item><item><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>Citizenship matters not. Only residency.&lt;p&gt;Just because I&amp;#x27;m a Britsh person living in the US doesn&amp;#x27;t mean I&amp;#x27;m not subject to the death penalty or am exempt from having to buy health insurance, for example.</text></item><item><author>mrtksn</author><text>How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stale2002</author><text>&amp;gt;  what does it mean “residency”?&lt;p&gt;Usually residency is self declared or based on where you have spent the majority of the year working in.&lt;p&gt;This is already handled, by lots of people, when they declare residency already, for where they currently live&amp;#x2F;work&amp;#x2F;are covered by taxes under.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t a new thing.</text></comment>