Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
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Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#2hello GDPR, goodbye freedom of speech
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#3I don't think that anybody should try to fix Facebook, because it's just not realistic.
Facebook simply needs to give way to a more evolved and humane way of "social networking".
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#4hello GDPR, goodbye freedom of speech
You probably should explain this statement.
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#5It would be absurd for Facebook, a US company, to adopt as a global standard a framework that's entirely decided and enforced by the EU.
Perhaps a global data protection framework can largely conform to GDPR, but it clearly has to be decided in the US.
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#6hello GDPR, goodbye freedom of speech
GDPR isn’t so much a freedom of speech regulation insofar it’s more of setting out the rules on how corporations need to handle personal data. The ideas behind GDPR are good, but I’m unsure of the burden of compliance. Users will enjoy, presumably, an increased level of data control. Companies may need to re-engineer their offerings to fit into this new model, the result of which may mean unforseeable inconveniences and cost to the end user.
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#7hello GDPR, goodbye freedom of speech
You probably should explain this statement.
I have seen a lot of GDPR critics on HN saying that the right to be forgotten is censorship. That news articles about criminals should not be deleted. The GP is probably reiterating such sentiments.
Strangely, none of these critics ever seem to consider the opposite cases: what if a person was wrongly accused of murder, but was later found innocent? Old articles about his "suspicion for murder" should either be rectified or deleted. What is more important: to prevent an innocent person from being punished, or to be able to punish a legit criminal?
Or let's take something more mundane. If you posted embarassing party photos while you were a teenagers, and some site made a copy of those photos, shouldn't you be able to have them removed?
(Mind you: this particular critique on GDPR wasn't valid in the first place. GDPR article 17 states that the right to be forgotten does not apply "for archiving purposes in the public interest", among others.)
See also my other comment in this thread about the plastic surgery meme, "The only thing you’ll ever have to worry about is how to tell the kids". The meme is false but it ruined the woman's career.
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#8It would be absurd for Facebook, a US company, to adopt as a global standard a framework that's entirely decided and enforced by the EU. Perhaps a global data protection framework can largely conform to GDPR, but it clearly has to be decided in the US.
It's as absurd as Google/Facebook/et al. adopting US cultural norms as global standard of banning ads, YouTube content, social media content and everything else for the whole world.
Meaning: not absurd at all.
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#9I don't think that anybody should try to fix Facebook, because it's just not realistic. Facebook simply needs to give way to a more evolved and humane way of "social networking".
Facebook should just go away
Re: Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
You probably should explain this statement.
I have seen a lot of GDPR critics on HN saying that the right to be forgotten is censorship. That news articles about criminals should not be deleted. The GP is probably reiterating such sentiments. Strangely, none of these critics ever seem to consider the opposite cases: what if a person was wrongly accused of murder, but was later found innocent? Old articles about his "suspicion for murder" should either be recti…
If someone is wrongly accused of murder, and then he's found innocent, he was still a suspect during some time, so those articles are correct.