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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: 2) by HiThere on Thursday April 05 2018, @05:46PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 05 2018, @05:46PM (#663019) Journal

    It's always been harsh on "the new guy". There were lots of "no dogs or Irish" signs if you go back a bit.

    OTOH, people have a strong tendency to pick small visible groups to malign. (You've got to be a large enough group to be interesting, or you just get ignored.) Groups that are small and intentionally act strangely are almost begging to be persecuted, and this is a selection of groups that those of the jewish faith traditionally fall into.

    That said, some people are just bigots, and dislike anyone who's different. All groups of any size include some sociopaths. Unfortunately, group dynamics often let such people acquire and maintain power. This is a basic defect in humanity, much stronger than their moderate inherited xenophobia. I'd say that groups that accept and encourage such people deserve the be isolated, but I haven't encountered any that don't. It's a remnant of tribalism that seems to be genetic (the accepting of such people, I'm not sure about the behavior itself).

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