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

Submitted via IRC for fyngyrz

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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @02:35AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @02:35AM (#662746)

    Bad news: if your friends and family use Facebook, they have all that data anyway -- the real data, not the fake one. Those saboteurs will still keep tagging you in photos, talking about you, mentioning that it's your birthday, discussing your cat, reminiscing how great that party you held at your off-grid cabin in the woods was... and Facebook will keep mining that shit and building your profile, whether you're there to help them or not.

    You can not escape. The Shadow Profile will hunt you until the day you die. Resistance is futile.

    (FWIW, I never had a FB account at all, and I still periodically got creepily accurate "invites" that would list a dozen or so of my friends that are "already on Facebook". You know, the stereotypical "we know everything about you" mafia tactic, where they send you a bouquet of flowers for your wedding, a new school backpack when your kid enters elementary school, stuff like that.)

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @08:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @08:58AM (#662832)

    The Shadow Profile will hunt you until the day you die.

    True

    Resistance is futile.

    False