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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, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday April 05 2018, @07:50AM (1 child)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 05 2018, @07:50AM (#662820) Journal

    You can add the EFF's Privacy Badger [eff.org] extension to your browser. It will zap the Faecebook buttons and prevent them and their scripts from calling home.

    You can also block Faecebook at the firewall on your own computer as an extra precaution. You just need the ASN.

    host www.facebook.com
    whois -h whois.radb.net 31.13.72.36

    That should tell you it is AS32934. Then use that number to fetch the full list of their networks.

    whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934' \
    | sed -n '/^[0-9]/{s/ /\n/g;p}' \
    | sort -t . -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n >  fb.text

    Then feed that into PF or iptables. The list can be made persistent across boots if you know your filter. Sites blocked by Cloudflare are a problem though since the outward facing address is not that of the main problem company but that of Cloudflare instead.

    No clue about IPv6 though.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @11:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05 2018, @11:14AM (#662866)

    Nice. Pity this is needed just to keep the scum out.
    Don't worry; you are not alone; not many others know about IP6ish either