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The GDPR would theoretically protect Europeans from that but bars are open to tourists – non-Europeans with non-European bank accounts
GDPR applies to people based in the EU, or located inside the EU, so tourists would be protected as well. I am also absolutely not surprised that a bartender would not know about GDPR, since it doesn’t really apply to their job. (They might also know it by its Dutch acronym, AVG.)
Well, the good news is that that’s true for EU people too.
Wait, did I say good news?
And yes, GDPR is limited to companies that do business inside the EU. That is also the leverage through which enforcement can happen - losing access to the EU market.