United Kingdom: Ruling expanding GDPR scope due to currency used for Patreon subscriptions

On 21 December 2021, the United Kingdom Court of Appeal issued a judgement on a private lawsuit between the Israeli-British citizen Walter Soriano and the US news publisher Forensic News LLC, which contains an expansion of the scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Soriano claimed that Forensic libelled him in a series of stories published in 2020 and sued for unlawful conduct under the GDPR. The Court of Appeal overruled previous judgements by stating that the GDPR can be applied to Forensic because the company's Patreon page allows subscriptions using GBP and EUR. This qualifies Forensic's business activity as oriented towards the UK and EU and allows for the application of the GDPR.