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posted by chromas on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the privacy dept.

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There’s no way to sugarcoat this message: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg believes North America users of his platform deserve a lower data protection standard than people everywhere else in the world.

In a phone interview with Reuters yesterday Mark Zuckerberg declined to commit to universally implementing changes to the platform that are necessary to comply with the European Union's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Rather, he said the company was working on a version of the law that would bring some European privacy guarantees worldwide — declining to specify to the reporter which parts of the law would not extend worldwide.

"We're still nailing down details on this, but it should directionally be, in spirit, the whole thing," Reuters quotes Zuckerberg on the GDPR question.

This is a subtle shift of line. Facebook's leadership has previously implied the product changes it's making to comply with GDPR's incoming data protection standard would be extended globally.

[...] On the speculation front, consent under GDPR for processing personal data means offering individuals "genuine choice and control", as the UK's data watchdog explains it. So perhaps Facebook isn't comfortable about giving North American users that kind of autonomy to revoke specific consents at will.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/facebook-gdpr-wont-be-universal/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @01:59AM (#662730)

    > So perhaps Facebook isn't comfortable about giving North American users that kind of autonomy to revoke specific consents at will.

    Yeah, Facebook isn't comfortable about giving any users that kind of autonomy. That's why we need a fucking LAW to force them to do it.

    > There’s no way to sugarcoat this message: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg believes North America users of his platform deserve a lower data protection standard than people everywhere else in the world.

    No, he doesn't believe that, you nincompoop. He doesn't want any users to have data protection. There's this new goddamn LAW that's forcing him to provide it to some users, against his wishes.

    If North American users want the same privacy protections that European users get, perhaps North American users should get off their fat asses and push for them. When they stop calling those protections "communist" and "socialist" and "anti-capitalist" and "something that should be handled by the invisible hand of the free market (when it stops fisting you)", of course.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @05:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @05:24AM (#662787)

    perhaps North American users should get off their fat asses and push for them.

    Push for the laws or for the fat asses?