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Parfitt_David
Parfitt_David
Level 3
January 28, 2019
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GDPR - Island Territories of EU Countries

  • January 28, 2019
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Our GDPR process manages the people who are residents of the countries of the EU but my concern is we are not covering the territories/islands/lands which belong to said EU countries.

  • Should Islands/Territories/Lands of these EU countries follow the same GDPR process as the mother country?
  • Is there a definitive list of EU countries and all of the territories? I am not a geography guru and I can't seem to find this list out there. Hoping someone has it compiled!

Thank you for your help

Dave

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    Eric_Stone1
    Eric_Stone1
    Level 2
    January 28, 2019

    Territories are traditionally under the jurisdiction of the mother nation and thus GDPR would apply to all territories. In cases where there might be some gray area, I'd always err on the side of GDPR - I've found it best to apply the stricter rules to everyone rather than use more slack rules in some cases. Will also help when most nations inevitably adopt some form of GDPR legislation.

      Parfitt_David
      Parfitt_DavidAuthor
      Level 3
      January 28, 2019

      Eric- Thank you kindly for the incredibly quick response I agree with you, and will err on the side of caution. Out of curiosity, do you know of a master list of EU countries with territories listed? I guess I can go through the EU list and look up each country for their territories, but I'm wondering if someone already did that work.

      Have a great day,

      Dave

      Eric_Stone1
      Eric_Stone1
      Level 2
      January 28, 2019

      No problem at all.

      This list could prove helpful, especially considering the first column. Not a copy and paste job, but I believe the data is there.

      Special member state territories and the European Union - Wikipedia

      Ed_King
      Ed_King
      Level 2
      January 28, 2019

      David,

      www.marketingopendata.org has a country list that has EU designation and also mapping of the territories to the parent countries, in addition to other useful stuff like top level domains, country dialing code and such. It's free to download and use.

      Once you get to the Google Drive folder, look for the file called "Countries"

      Ed King

        Eric_Stone1
        Eric_Stone1
        Level 2
        January 28, 2019

        As a heads up, we get a 404 when navigating to site with the www prefix.

        https://marketingopendata.org works though!

        SanfordWhiteman
        SanfordWhiteman
        Level 10
        January 28, 2019

        Like the other folks, I agree that including the territories et al. in your list is advisable.

        The best format for such a list depends on how you're implementing your visibility rules/popups/dependencies/etc.

        We use this master JavaScript object whenever doing advanced compliance stuff. It holds separate arrays for each of the GDPR subtypes, so we can tell the source apart at a glance while still considering the list as a whole to be "GDPR":

        var privacyLists = {
          iso2AlphaByReg: {
            GDPR: {
              core: ["AT", "BE", "BG", "HR", "CY", "CZ", "DK", "EE", "FI", "FR", "DE", "GR", "HU", "IE", "IT", "LV", "LT", "LU", "MT", "NL", "PL", "PT", "RO", "SK", "SI", "ES", "SE", "GB"],
              omr: ["GF", "GP", "MQ", "ME", "YT", "RE", "MF"],
              special: ["GI", "AX"],
              oct: ["PM", "GL", "BL", "SX", "AW", "CW", "WF", "PF", "NC", "TF", "AI", "BM", "IO", "VG", "KY", "FK", "MS", "PN", "SH", "GS", "TC"],
              micro: ["AD", "LI", "MC", "SM", "VA"],
              misc: ["JE", "GG"]
            }
          }
        };

        Of course you may not need any code at all. If you're using Forms 2.0 Visibility Rules, for example, here's that same list in regex format (used by Visibility Rules [contains] rules):

        AT|BE|BG|HR|CY|CZ|DK|EE|FI|FR|DE|GR|HU|IE|IT|LV|LT|LU|MT|NL|PL|PT|RO|SK|SI|ES|SE|GB
        GF|GP|MQ|ME|YT|RE|MF
        GI|AX
        PM|GL|BL|SX|AW|CW|WF|PF|NC|TF|AI|BM|IO|VG|KY|FK|MS|PN|SH|GS|TC
        AD|LI|MC|SM|VA
        JE|GG

        Here's an example form with that exact config:

        CodePen - MktoForms2 :: Basic GDPR-Sensitive Country

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