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In general, this is a very good thing. The main outcome will be that more engineers will be needed to do more work to ensure that data is handled more carefully. The cost will be slightly reduced profits at companies that handle large volumes of data globally. What's bad about that?
Well, viable strategy now for many startups (also EU ones) using US infrastructure is to block all EU customers. How is that good?
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Question: If Facebook manages data within Europe, what are the safeguards in place to ensure that there won't be mass surveillance, e.g. face recognition, shadow profiles, friend graph browsing?
(Shadow profiles are plainly a violation of data protection law; do they exist for EU users?)
Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.
I for one do not welcome our new content curating overlords.
There is one key issue that is routinely ignored. The US and other countries have two sets of data protection rules that govern police and security services. One set of rules for residents of that country (e.g. US persons) or domestic data and another much less stringent set or rules for everyone else. So even if data protection rules were perfectly adequate in every single country on this planet, there would still b…
This is going to be generally true of most countries. If it weren't the case, most forms of espionage would be subject to prosecution in the spy's home state.
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This isn't just an impediment to businesses that deal in selling "sensitive private data". It's an impediment to any business that has any data about its customers (e.g. delivery addresses). Unless I'm misunderstanding it?
Nope, more useless EU bureaucracy (stupid cookie popup) just to pretend that the NSA won't get (be given) the data by EU governments. Everyone thinks the cookie law is dumb, but there it is, constantly reminding everyone of their folly.
And besides this the rules for how private companies can handle my data are totally different in the UK to the US. In the UK private data comes with fairly strict obligations under the data protection acts and leaking (even accidentally or due to insufficient safeguards preventing malicious actions) can be punished robustly. As I understand it in the US the laws are rather different.
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If those companies can't remain profitable without being irresponsible with sensitive private data then maybe they shouldn't exist at all.
This isn't just an impediment to businesses that deal in selling "sensitive private data". It's an impediment to any business that has any data about its customers (e.g. delivery addresses). Unless I'm misunderstanding it?
Interesting tidbit: If you try to refer to this article with a link on Facebook, they will block you from posting it.