Can I request companies to give me all the data they have on me when I&#39;m visiting a country in the EU?
<p>I'm not a citizen of the EU, nor do I reside in the EU. But as a consumer, I welcome GDPR. It gives me some limited rights even though I'm not in the direct interests of the regulation.</p>

<p>Anyway, if I understand the regulation correctly, I'm covered by it if I visit / reside in a country in the EU (even if I'm not a citizen). Does this mean I can request companies to give me a copy of <em>all</em> the data they have on me when I visit, for example, France on vacation?</p>

<p>It would seem that only the actions which are taken while present in the EU would be covered under the GDPR for entities based outside of the EU.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects <strong>who are in the Union</strong> by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:</p>
<ul>
<li>the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union;</li>
<li>or
the monitoring of their behaviour <strong>as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.</strong></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Source</a></p>
<p>There may be cases centring on what the definition of <em>as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union</em> is, as this would allow companies to limit how much of their activities fall under GDPR.</p>

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