At first UK, then EU, then GERMANY, then GDRP, now LGPD ... How far we will be enforced to comply with other countries extraterritorial laws?
<p><em>(these are somehow related questions: <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/65706/what-imprint-do-i-have-to-use-to-comply-with-various-international-laws">1</a>, <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/108182/is-it-required-to-list-each-cookie-by-name-to-comply-with-eu-uk-cookie-laws">2</a>, <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/48744/extraterritorial-scope-of-brazils-lgpd">3</a>; but not duplicate ). Also, if you downvote, please comment the reason of downvoting, and don't see the rant where it is not.</em></p>
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<p>Original question:</p>
<p>We (website owners) are endlessly required to comply with any new law whatever is invented by any country. Once in every new period, each country takes a new law which enforce world users to comply with their laws.
(UK asks this, GDRP asks that, Germany asks to reveal website holder information, now LGPD asks something [i dont know]).</p>
<p>And there are 250+ countries:</p>
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<p>And we have to comply all of each country's law (whenever why invent something).
Strange, crazy and <strong>unlegit</strong> (why I should comply with i.e. <em>Burgundia's</em> law?<br />
Website (generally - internet) is not a material property like factory, retail store or mine, as they have to have chosen physical location &amp; audience), but internet/website is absolutely opposite thing by concept (a place without a  physical presense), and world-wide-web (call it DNS systems, IANA or ICANN) distributes it to all over the world (so, we don't intentionally register websites in Burgundia, thus we are not responsible if our website is accessed from Burgundia. If they don't like our website's privacy &amp; terms, then don't use that website), and people enters our websites all over the world and we have no idea from where users enter. So, why or how we are forced to created algorithms to detect from which country user comes, then learn all those countries legislation and for each country have appropriate terms? Per an average mortal website-owner, this seems just insane and dream.</p>
<p>Is not there any treaty or organisation that gives us (website owners) some freedom &amp; protects us from other countries' illegit requirements?</p>
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<p><em>btw. I used &quot;Burgundia&quot; as a phseudo country name not to offence anyone.</em></p>

<h2>You don’t need to comply with these laws</h2>
<p>Just stop operating in their country.</p>
<p>If you choose to operate in a country, by operating a mine, a retail store, a factory or, say, a web site, then that country has a right, recognised by all other countries, to require you to abide by their laws while doing so. Once you start interacting with users through your website (cookies, login, eCommerce) you are “operating” where your users are and are subject to the applicable law. If you were to require your users to declare that they were citizens of and presently in, say, Azerbaijan, then only Azerbaijani law would apply.</p>
<p>There is also a basic rule of law that <em>you</em> are responsible for informing yourself of the law relevant to your activities and to comply with it. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ignorantia juris non excusat</a>.</p>

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