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Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Re: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Post by Sargos »

est31 wrote: post #28
stickfigure wrote: post #11

This is the balkanization of the internet. We've lived through a brief period of free exchange among peoples, but it's soon over. I predict only one viable future for all technology companies, big and small: Pick a single national jurisdiction, keep your employees and servers inside it.

I wouldn't really call it balkanization. Most services still operate across borders. Thanks to the internet I have contact to peers from all over the world. Some aspects of the internet will become more localized in the future, but generally inter border communication is still growing I think. And in fact on an EU level, rules are unified instead of balkanized. The digital single market project brought things like th…

EU is still pretty balkanized when it comes to rules and is a headache for businesses especially when compared to the US.

Re: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Post by robin_reala »

Hokusai wrote: post #3

Tech companies, or any company for that matter, will do what is best for themselves. Regulations exist to protect consumers and other companies from accusative behaviors. Remove the regulation and the 'we care for your privacy' message disappears with it. Because they never cared for your privacy, they will just doing what was mandatory.

It’s never “we care for your privacy” but rather “we value your privacy”, which is easy to read as “we assign a value to your privacy”. In that light, the messaging becomes clearer.

Re: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Post by dcolkitt »

amaccuish wrote: post #15
dkdk8283 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regulations are fluid and often end up raising the barrier to entry often stifling the competition.

Companies are often fluid, especially smaller ones, and can more easily adapt to a changing world.

This just isn’t consistent with the empirical evidence whatsoever. An overwhelming amount of economic analysis shows that the burden of regulation disproportionately falls on small business.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t other justifications for any given regulation. But ain’t no small business owner or entrepreneur in history ever said “Boy! All these regulations sure are making my life easy”

Re: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Post by dvcrn »

mrtksn wrote: post #25

How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?

It’s not about citizenship but where you live. In place A the rules of place A apply. If place A is part of the EU, EU laws apply.

Re: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Post by rrobukef »

KukiAirani wrote: post #29

Personally, I think the GDPR cookie notifications have severely degraded the user experience of the web. I also think it's become just another "Terms and Conditions" - something that people reflexively accept because they want to get on with using a product. Future regulations with teeth, but don't exist yet, are things like: - Data portability: I should be able to export my entire Facebook account in full in a stand…

I reject all interest reflexively. I think it's great. Not! It just shows me how much tracking there actually is... And since I delete my cookies every session, I have to do it every time.

I still wonder what the 'legitimate interests' of ad companies are. I also wonder if rejecting the cookies actually works, it's not like I can check right?

Re: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

mrtksn wrote: post #25

How these rules apply for people with multiple citizenships and residence? That’s the case with a lot of people in Europe. How to find out to which jurisdiction my FB data is bound to?

Citizenship matters not. Only residency.

Just because I'm a Britsh person living in the US doesn't mean I'm not subject to the death penalty or am exempt from having to buy health insurance, for example.

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