https://gdpru.eu/en/countries/us/Recent content in Us on GDPR AuditHugoen-GBSun, 20 Sep 2026 01:05:00 +0300https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/us-copyright-gov/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:05:00 +0300https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/us-copyright-gov/<h2 id="context">Context</h2> <p>copyright.gov is the website of the U.S. Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress. The operator is located in the US, on a <code>.gov</code> domain.</p> <p><strong>Jurisdictional caveat.</strong> copyright.gov is a U.S. government site. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive do not apply to it directly: the operator has no establishment in the EU, and the services are not directed at data subjects in the EU within the meaning of Article 3 of the GDPR. The site&rsquo;s legal framework is made up of U.S. instruments — the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Office of Management and Budget&rsquo;s guidance M-10-22 on the use of web-measurement and customization technologies on government sites. Accordingly, the severity assessment below is given not as an allegation of a GDPR violation but as a technical observation: a description of what the recording captures and of how it would look by EU standards. The competent authority and the applicable law here are American.</p>