"That won't help, GDPR doesn't care about location, just about data over/from EU and EEA citizens and residents and its protection. And the equivalent Californian legislation isn't concerned about location of the data either."
An argument against will be that the users identified as residing in countries outside the EU. Logging in from an IP address in the EU shouldn't mean that GDPR applies. I log into my email and web site back end when traveling. It doesn't make me an EU citizen or resident.
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