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Perhaps not directly, but if they're processing the information of EU data subjects on behalf of another company that does business in the EU, then that company will have to justify using this service, which is clearly not GDPR compliant.

I imagine the company using them will want to recover financial losses they incur after getting reamed by whatever european Data Protection Authority decides to go after them - especially if the culprits did promote themselves as being GDPR compliant.

The point of the EU's strong data protection rules is to have accountability - and it will fall on someone along the chain that caused the mess. Companies can't be allowed to completely disregard how they collect and store data and then go "Oops, haha sorry about that!" when the shit inevitably hits the fan, and just continue their business as usual.



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