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Great news! They have been preying on a very vulnerable community.
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Sorry, I meant benefit of EEA over EU membership.
For Norway the reason is fish. Since they're not in the EU, they don't have to allow others access to fish in their waters.
"Companies cannot just include external software into their products and then hope that they comply with the law. Grindr included the tracking code of external partners and forwarded user data to potentially hundreds of third parties - it now also has to ensure that these 'partners' comply with the law." – Ala Krinickytė, Data protection lawyer at noyb This has a pretty wide impact, I'd say.
The impact comes from Grindr being responsible for the collected data, obviously just handing that data to a third party to do whatever is not responsible handling of it. Grindr actually distributed data from persons that had opted-out, reasoning that setting a flag should stop the down-stream processors from touching the data. That is literally the gossip girl using the the "don't tell anyone this" principle of priv…
Great news! They have been preying on a very vulnerable community.
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Sorry, I meant benefit of EEA over EU membership.
They have some "special rights" on natural resources. i.e oil, fishery. I think the EU will close that loophole soon.
GDPR contains special protections for LGBT people, but Grindr shared their users private information with third parties anyway, since they argued that Grindr users might be straight... Pretty shocking and absurd.
no more special than for straight people
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They have some "special rights" on natural resources. i.e oil, fishery. I think the EU will close that loophole soon.
Also, EU has a ruleset adapted to the climate of central Europe and not to cold places where almost no food grows and eating seals and fighting polar bears is how you stay alive. This is an extreme example, but Norway is more dependent on fish for sustenance than many other countries.
Your image of Norway may be a bit off..
It's true though that Norway is overly protective of its food industry. And arguably for good reason since it wouldn't be competitive at all if integrated with the rest of Europe.
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Sorry, I meant benefit of EEA over EU membership.
For Norway the reason is fish. Since they're not in the EU, they don't have to allow others access to fish in their waters.