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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/
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 05 2018, @02:47AM (5 children)
I disagree. If I go somewhere, and target a black person to treat like shit, that black person may or may not put up with my shit for awhile. But, eventually, he'll respond with comments that include words like cracker, honkey, lily-white, etc. No matter whether you are minority or majority, you represent whatever group you belong to. If I were to start dumping on Catholics, I could expect responses about how stupid Protestants are. And, we see comments right here on Soylent about how stupid all people are who even believe in a God. So, no, it isn't just minorities who get picked on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:51AM
:-) Yeah, well, Protestants are probably the biggest cause of global conflict right now. Catholics and Jews are really the only ones that have their shit together. Public Relations is the only thing that keeps them from doing the right thing and finishing the job to gain independence from England. Fucking Kennedy! He had his chance and blew it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @05:22AM (2 children)
You could expect those even without dumping on Catholics. As a simple consequence of the law of large numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @06:22AM (1 child)
It's a simple consequence of not treating people as individuals.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 05 2018, @05:49PM
You can only treat people as individuals if you know them as individuals. But you don't need to consider each person the synecdoche of the group.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @03:25PM
how about we just agree that no matter what kind of physical human he is and forget whats in a name, can we agree that someone has to slap a sense of humanity into him instead of his outrageous disregard for the common person in his efforts to monetize peoples lives as if they were products?
anyone like that needs to be stopped. doesnt matter where they are from. his behavior is a problem, his power is a problem, what he can do causes problems and what you are proposing is we go fuck ourselves and tell him about it.