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German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.

You can stop using Facebook if you want to

They are collecting information about me even without my consent, without having registered.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.

You can stop using Facebook if you want to

Or, and this is crazy, I know, but Facebook could follow the rules.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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You can stop using Facebook if you want to

You can stop Facebook from using you as well in the EU.

So you're effectively stealing then? Your data is your payment to Facebook.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.

If you volunteer your data to Facebook I have a hard time considering you to have been “exploited.”

If only! Facebook collects plenty of data about non-members.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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If the appeal doesn't go Facebook's way, what is the resolution to this? It sounds like they'll just have to update their terms of service to say that you agree to allow Facebook to use your data in XYZ ways. Of course, that'll be buried in the fine print and no-one will even notice.

> It sounds like they'll just have to update their terms of service to say that you agree to allow Facebook to use your data in XYZ ways. Of course, that'll be buried in the fine print and no-one will even notice. If you read the first paragraph of the article, you'll notice that that is in fact the thing that the court is talking about: the degree of consent created by their terms of service process is deemed insuff…

So they're basically saying "our citizens are so stupid they can't even read properly while becoming a customer of a company based on the other side of the world, and we fine you for their stupidity". Just LOL. I live in the EU and I feel the socialism coming back. I need to get away soon.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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post #14

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Deeply unattractive business environment for companies exploiting people's personal data without their consent? Good.

If you volunteer your data to Facebook I have a hard time considering you to have been “exploited.”

I have a hard time considering it "voluteering" considering other people can put data about me up on Facebook and I have no recourse.

Further, I fail to see why "voluntering" it is relevant at all.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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>A lot of Germans use Fb with a fake name anyway To FB the fake name is only yet another datapoint connected to your identity. Make no mistake, they know who you are and what you did last summer, and can pretty much predict what you will do next summer as well. Or worse, influence what you will do.

You can hide from your your boss, your wife, or even your mother, but you can’t hide from Facebook.

Oh you can, just hit the "power off" button on your device and it'll have zero effects on you.

Re: German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

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Wait until GDPR is in place in May and German and other EU courts will rule FB to death. IDK how FB will ever be compliant with GDPR and survive that huge upcoming fines in the long term or in the worst case the withdrawal from these markets.

Here is a list of countries with the most Facebook users: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-... The first EU country is #10, and it won't even be an EU country in a few years. I think Facebook would survive leaving the EU market just fine. I'm sure they really, really don't want to, but they could. Edit: updated link

Leaving the EU would have very strong network effects and is IMO not an option for Facebook. The entry barrier to social networks is so low now that this could trigger a mass exodus in the rest of the world.
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