Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
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Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#2Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity (https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/) so not surprised at all.
Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#3Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity ( https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ ) so not surprised at all.
Is there any recourse that would force Facebook to comply?
Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#4Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity ( https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ ) so not surprised at all.
Is there any recourse that would force Facebook to comply?
I am not sure.
If this was some random small company you could imagine that the regulators have bigger fish to fry, but in this case this is the #1 offender worldwide when it comes to privacy - if there are "fish to fry", this is the biggest fish, and the regulator's lack of serious action (such as the million-dollar fines everyone is fear-mongering about) suggests they're either incompetent or complicit.
Maybe suing your local privacy regulator in local court is the next step? Open Rights Group is taking that approach in the UK: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/privacy-organ...
Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#5Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#6Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity ( https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ ) so not surprised at all.
GDPR only applies to the EU anyway. They can't enforce GDPR in the US. Facebook can always just close their offices in Germany but still serve their website worldwide, and unless Germany wants to implement a firewall to the likes of China, it will be accessible to German residents.
The US needs to implement an equivalent privacy law.
Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#7Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity ( https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ ) so not surprised at all.
GDPR only applies to the EU anyway. They can't enforce GDPR in the US. Facebook can always just close their offices in Germany but still serve their website worldwide, and unless Germany wants to implement a firewall to the likes of China, it will be accessible to German residents. The US needs to implement an equivalent privacy law.
The EU can stop local advertisement revenue flow to Facebook.
Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#8Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity ( https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ ) so not surprised at all.
GDPR only applies to the EU anyway. They can't enforce GDPR in the US. Facebook can always just close their offices in Germany but still serve their website worldwide, and unless Germany wants to implement a firewall to the likes of China, it will be accessible to German residents. The US needs to implement an equivalent privacy law.
> just close their offices in Germany
They'd have to close everything in the EU. I can't imagine the rest of the EU would be fine with it.
And that's probably more than Facebook is willing to do - it would mean no advertising in the EU.
Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#9Re: Facebook will ignore data collection ban issued in Germany over WhatApp rules
#10Facebook already ignores the GDPR with total impunity ( https://ruben.verborgh.org/facebook/ ) so not surprised at all.
GDPR only applies to the EU anyway. They can't enforce GDPR in the US. Facebook can always just close their offices in Germany but still serve their website worldwide, and unless Germany wants to implement a firewall to the likes of China, it will be accessible to German residents. The US needs to implement an equivalent privacy law.
Not quite true. If facebook were to remain usable by EU citizens, it falls under EI jurisdiction. This, too, is part of GDPR and the reason why some US websites simply block EU IP addresses.
Of course, they could defy that order as well and hope that their assets are safe elsewhere in the world. Or, you know. their executives have seen enough of Rome and Paris.