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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 05 2018, @06:57PM
Cool. I can follow your reasoning. But, let's take that a little further, or at least on a slight tangent. Which of us (us, being human beings) have not been persecuted on multiple occassions, throughout history?
The Jews are at the same disadvantage that the Romany are. They are a people who were dispossessed of their homeland, long ago in history. Neither group "belongs" anywhere. The Jews have their homeland back, for the past few decades. The Romany still don't. How many other peoples have been at such a disadvantage, within recent history?
Even the Eastern Europeans under the Soviet still retained a homeland, even if many of their people couldn't return home. Not having a home to call home kinda puts people in a special little niche, that few of the rest of us even attempt to understand.