Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
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Re: Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
#22So it seems like we will find out if GDPR means European users have a 'right' to use your service for free with this case. If the EU rules against Google and Facebook here I suspect the EU will become a digital wasteland. Companies like Google and Facebook wont leave but you will probably be charged for usage.
Exactly. The EU makes it impossible to do business they will just not support the EU. Already people in the EU wonder why the US tech companies tend to not bring features or products and services to the EU.
Just going to get worse as there is plenty of other places to do business.
Re: Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
??? GDPR doesn’t require that EU users get to use your service for free. If you want to do business in the EU, you have to comply with EU law. If you don’t want to do that, then don’t do business in the EU.
Look at what this case is about, Facebook and Google are saying if you want to use our service you need to enable tracking otherwise don't use our service. This lawsuit states that Facebook and Google are not legally allowed to deny service.
Which is ridiculous. Ultimately they will have to just not offer products and services in the EU. The EU as others indicated will become a digital waste land.
Re: Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
#24So it seems like we will find out if GDPR means European users have a 'right' to use your service for free with this case. If the EU rules against Google and Facebook here I suspect the EU will become a digital wasteland. Companies like Google and Facebook wont leave but you will probably be charged for usage.
Exactly. The EU makes it impossible to do business they will just not support the EU. Already people in the EU wonder why the US tech companies tend to not bring features or products and services to the EU. Just going to get worse as there is plenty of other places to do business.
Sure, but the EU is not an insignificant market and to be honest, this could have a similar effect to anti trust laws. Have European companies build up competition against the US behemoths.
China is an unfree hell hole that I don't want to live in (social score) but you can't argue that from the position of developing a domestic industry their selective blocking/worsening of services allowed the ecosystem to grow intstead of sharecropping on Google's "platform"
Re: Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because not everyone wants to make money by selling out there users. There was advertisement industry before it was even possible to track users.
You actually didn't respond to my question. Reworded my question is, if Google can't make it work why do you think some random company that isn't Google can? Your response is very emotional and if you aren't interested inc conversing with me civilly please don't.
Google can't make it work because they need to sell out there users. A random company does not need to do that. Even google doesn't do that if you're an enterprise user. So you see google does make it work if you pay them. The same way you can pay a random company.
Re: Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. The EU makes it impossible to do business they will just not support the EU. Already people in the EU wonder why the US tech companies tend to not bring features or products and services to the EU. Just going to get worse as there is plenty of other places to do business.
Sure, but the EU is not an insignificant market and to be honest, this could have a similar effect to anti trust laws. Have European companies build up competition against the US behemoths. China is an unfree hell hole that I don't want to live in (social score) but you can't argue that from the position of developing a domestic industry their selective blocking/worsening of services allowed the ecosystem to grow int…
I do not think trying to slow down the competition will help the EU.
Guess we will see. Think instead less product and services will be offered.
If we look at the last 100+ years we can see Europe has fallen and continues to as the other continents rise.