Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law
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#3> Facebook members outside the United States and Canada, whether they know it or not, are currently governed by terms of service agreed with the company’s international headquarters in Ireland.
So would the GDPR have any protection for an Facebook-expatriate in the US who does not agree to the new terms, or would they still have no standing in European court as they are not citizen / residents?
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#4Couldnt they move all they servers to some thid world country and just dont care about Gdpr at all??
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#5> Earlier this month, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Reuters in an interview that his company would apply the EU law globally “in spirit,”
How would they apply the law? They can't be prosecuted if they fail to uphold the same law. Saying "we'll apply the law in spirit" is just moral posturing IMO.
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#6It would be corporate malpractice if they were not to do that, this way they limit their exposure to the exuberant fines and any other unintended consequences of this anti-american piece of legislation.
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#7So, does GDPR applies to ?:
- European citizens only currently living in the EU ?
- European citizens worldwide ?
- Everyone currently living in the EU ?
As a European living in the US, I'm wondering.
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#8I don't use Facebook, but could one build a service that automatically sets Facebook's privacy settings to sensible options? A large part of the problem is that changing these through the web site is painful in the extreme.
I suppose I'm asking if their API provides read/write access to privacy settings. If so, there's a big opportunity here.
More generally, I'd like to see governments mandate that all FB user's privacy settings be reset to the max, and force Facebook to realistically inform users who want to loosen them about why they might want to do so.
Re: Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law
#9Couldnt they move all they servers to some thid world country and just dont care about Gdpr at all??
I don't think the servers matter, it's not really about the servers, it's about the business side of it, they operate a low tax business within the EU. I don't think they can move out of the EU without all of a sudden not having to pay a lot more for doing business with EU companies. So they still want to operate as a company within the EU to get the tax advantages, but then also are subject to the laws.
Re: Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law
#10Couldnt they move all they servers to some thid world country and just dont care about Gdpr at all??
They'd also have to stop being based in Europe (they're officially headquartered in Ireland, because tax evasion), and (here's the kicker): stop doing business with all of Europe. Even if they had to say screw it and not do any targeting of their adds at all, it really wouldn't make any business sense for them to take their ball and go home.